Obama gets the gold
As the election results roll in, it appears that Obama has won the race for President. Granted, this has been widely expected for the past several weeks, but it is still an historic occasion that the people of the United States voted for the first non-white President. While we are far from the color-blind society championed by Martin Luther King Jr., it is nice to know that we have made a little progress over the past four decades.
It remains to be seen what President-elect Obama's policies will look like once he moves past the campaigning stage. Will he merely play the role of a "progressive" Democrat in order to appease the left wing of his party, or will he swing far to the left towards full socialism? Given the recent trends towards economic socialism by the Bush administration in partially nationalizing banks, Freddie Mac, and Fannie Mae, I worry that the United States is poised on the slope for full-blown socialism. If the government continues to purchase ownership stakes in companies, nationalizes health care, and starts massive transfers of money from the "wealthy" to the "middle-class" (however one defines these terms), a socialist state might not be far behind.
Still, the Republicans have done such a miserable job over the past eight years that they deserved their fall from grace. Hopefully this election will force the party to figure out if it is the party of the Gingrich revolution, or the party of Paulson's buddies on Wall Street.
It remains to be seen what President-elect Obama's policies will look like once he moves past the campaigning stage. Will he merely play the role of a "progressive" Democrat in order to appease the left wing of his party, or will he swing far to the left towards full socialism? Given the recent trends towards economic socialism by the Bush administration in partially nationalizing banks, Freddie Mac, and Fannie Mae, I worry that the United States is poised on the slope for full-blown socialism. If the government continues to purchase ownership stakes in companies, nationalizes health care, and starts massive transfers of money from the "wealthy" to the "middle-class" (however one defines these terms), a socialist state might not be far behind.
Still, the Republicans have done such a miserable job over the past eight years that they deserved their fall from grace. Hopefully this election will force the party to figure out if it is the party of the Gingrich revolution, or the party of Paulson's buddies on Wall Street.
posted by David at 11/05/2008 12:14:00 AM
1 Comments:
I beg leave to disagree with you, O Dave.
I think a lot of people voted *for* Obama because of his race, which is exactly as racist as voting against someone because of his race.
In trying to prove they weren't racist, they showed dramatically that they were.
Had they voted for him because of his position, skills, experience, and character -- THAT would be historic.
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