With the financial meltdown and other factors, a perfect storm has developed for Obama to bring his socialist shock and awe to this country, and we're told not only that we can't complain but also that we must rejoice along with him.
Call me stubborn, but all the so-called centrist Cabinet appointments in the world don't diminish the jolt of Obama's statement on "Meet the Press" that "if our entire economic policy is premised on the notion that greed is good and 'what's in it for me?' it turns out that that's not good for anybody."
Don't get hung up on the words "socialist" or "Marxist" now. Just understand that a man who views our current system as "greedy" because an already heavily progressive income- and estate-tax system doesn't sufficiently punish "the wealthy" is no friend of capitalism or of the American dream. A man who so readily demonizes the human desire to pursue one's financial self-interest is setting the table for radical structural changes to our system.
If Obama's words here or to Joe the Plumber don't concern you, then maybe you'll grasp the gravity of the situation when he inaugurates socialized medicine and resurrects the failed and depression-exacerbating Keynesian pump-priming economic model to launch his $1 trillion new New Deal.
What then? Are we supposed to soothe ourselves against these possibly irreversible steps by contemplating Obama's long-forgotten "centrist" appointments or with some 1984-ish chant affirming our harmonious bliss as we kiss our traditions goodbye?
No, thank you.