But Obama’s Clintonism which is dragging Obama down, step by step, into a political morass he won’t be able to get out of – from NRO’s The Corner:
The Obama presidency is only one week old, but it has already limned its main moral outlines:
On January 20, President Obama called for the repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act. He also declared his intention to give multiple rights and privileges to homosexual couples.
On January 22, he issued an order announcing his intention to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay within one year, but admits he has not figured out how to do that. President Bush had expressed a similar wish, but could find no nations willing to take responsibility for the detainees.
On January 23, President Obama issued an order that authorizes tax dollars for abortions abroad.
From these announcements we learn that President Obama recognizes no difference between the Jewish-Christian covenant between a woman and a man (a covenant that they will have and nurture children, if they are so blessed), and a civil contract between two persons of any sex, in order to set up a household of affection and sexual favors.
This is a relapse into paganism…
…second, that this president’s guiding light in matters of national security is not a realistic assessment of the national interest but personal concern for what kind of figure he is cutting in the international eye. Good headlines first, practical thinking later.
Thirdly, we learn that the president is willing to do what a substantial bloc of U.S. taxpayers abhor, and will resist in conscience. Moreover, it is a mistake to think that people in most other nations love, honor, and respect the secularist preoccupation with abortion.
The first week did not have to begin this way. These first steps were unworthy of a great nation and unworthy of a serious leader. These decisions humiliated those who voted for President Obama because they had been assured, and assured others, that the new president would take seriously the culture of life. It is now clear that the new president was willing to allow those who risked their moral reputations to support him to feel in retrospect like liars…
In his first week in office, Bill Clinton deeply wounded the moral force of his own presidency by turning abruptly against those who regard abortion as the greatest evil of our time, as slavery was in Lincoln’s time. It is sad to see a Democratic president make that same mistake again.
The Democrats, from Obama on down, have learned nothing and forgotten nothing – bitterly stewing over President Bush, the Democrats have yet to figure out that the reason the GOP won in 1994, 2000, 2002 and 2004 was because of a very negative reaction to the moral depravity of liberalism as expressed by such things as radical homosexual rights, radical abortion rights and an unwillingness to be strong against men bent on evil in the world. The Democrats should keep in mind that the GOP did quite well against the Democrats in good economic times in 1994 and 2000 – and if we add bad economic times to these sorts of Obama policies, then 2010 could end up being a very long year for Democrats.
I doubt they’ll figure it out – they have convinced themselves that they didn’t lose over their liberalism but because we GOPers tricked the American people into voting against their own interests. Furthermore, they are now convinced that a majority is wise to these tricks of ours and thus won’t be fooled again. It could be a very rude awakening for our Democrats.
Naturally, I’ll be working very hard to make it as rude as possible.
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