Sunday, November 9, 2008

"America’s progressive paradox" -- Janet Albrechtsen


Janet Albrechtsen nails it DEAD FREAKIN' ON.

Voters were seduced by the Obama advertising, not the underlying product details of left-liberalism. Obama did not campaign on his left-wing voting record in Congress. On the contrary, he tacked sharply to the centre as the Democrat Presidential nominee. And it worked. What that means for an Obama Administration – and indeed for a Democrat controlled Congress – is that America remains an inherently right of centre nation.

And that means that the next four years will be a fascinating ride as Obama tries to satisfy his liberal Democrat colleagues in Congress and the more conservative voters who delivered him the keys to the White House.

I would only re-emphasize something that I spewed earlier on this blog. American voters (in general) are intellectually lazy. Both political parties take full advantage of that. One political party and candidate for president this year incorporated this ignorance into his campaign rather cleverly. The media was complicit in assuring (as Janet Albrechtsen points out) a winning advertising campaign, and continued ignorance to what was actually being sold.

The only way Obama remains popular enough with the American people to have a second term is if the media continues to push the agenda while hiding the failures, and the true meaning of the acts. That's going to be difficult as they trail off into obscurity based on a complete lack of public trust and obliteration of their circulation numbers. If that worm fully turns, the Obama sales scheme will whither on the vine...and this will be a four year term with no tail. It will, also, result in a brand new landscape for Congress provided someone in the Republican party has half a brain and a pair of marbles.