Liberals in for disappointment (Dec 27)
By Chuck Doud
The Madera Tribune
When Barack Obama campaigned for the presidency, his theme was “Change,” but it turns out he apparently meant Small Change. His Cabinet choices are pretty much middle-of-the-roaders. His foreign policy will be Basically Bush, his economic policy will be More Bailouts More of the Time.
That isn’t necessarily bad, unless you voted for Obama because you wanted the United States of America to become the Socialist States of America.
It would appear at this point that Obama hoodwinked the liberals into believing he would lead the charge into Marxist Nirvana. But he seems instead to be leading the charge back to the future.
Obama is nobody’s fool. He knows that whatever success Bill Clinton had in his first term was achieved by not upsetting the economic recovery Congress and the first President Bush had set into motion. He worked with Congress to change the rules of welfare, a Republican notion. He managed to govern from the center, which enabled him to hang on for a second term. Obama lived through that, observed it and no doubt learned much from it.
Many of those who voted for Obama will be disappointed when he doesn’t start shipping troops home from Iraq the day after he is inaugurated. He will basically follow the timetable already established by the Bush administration, perhaps tweaking it a bit, and keeping in mind that he may have to send those troops to Afghanistan.
Many of his supporters will be chagrined when they learn the country won’t have a new way to pay for medical care any time soon, even though he led people to believe health care “reform” would be on its way if they voted for him.
In fact, those who didn’t vote for Obama will be happier than a lot of those who did.
