With the newest Rasmussen polling numbers showing again that the majority of the American people do believe in health care reform, but do not under any circumstances desire the government controlled option--or takeover--of the industry, President Obama doesn't seem to grasp the expressed will of the people who elected him. In the President's utopia it is doctors, not trial lawyers, that are being selfish and charging people for procedures they do not need just to "make a buck." In the world you and I live in, we know that doctors run the risk of a massive lawsuit every time they deliver bad news to a patient.
In Afghanistan, President Obama has waited now for more than a month to make a decision to expand our footprint there by no more than 40,000 troops. 43 more soldiers have perished while he awaits settling on a new strategy, while the military personnel he put in place to do the job are begging him for more troops. He met with General McChrystal for all of forty-five minutes on Air Force One (for only the second time since commissioning McChrystal to the theater), while Joe Biden whispers in his ear to continue things that are not presently working. In President Obama's utopia he wishes war did not exist, but he has yet to realize that in order for it to be halted, he himself may have to recognize the threat that not addressing it properly would have.
On Iran, President Obama has issued a stern assessment of their nuclear ambitions. His stern words, in President Obama's utopia, should be enough for a reasonable world leader to be worried about so as to pick up a phone and wish to work it out that afternoon. Yet even after the IAEA's meetings on Iran, even after President Obama issued another stern deadline, the administration has begun to backtrack. In President Obama's utopia, the United States is not superior to other nations and therefore we should be powerless to have any say on how they develop. In fact if we simply give up our weapons, in President Obama's utopia, he believes they will give up theirs.
On the economy, "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need" sounds good. In a perfect world, such purity of goodness would be a place none on this planet recognize. In President Obama's utopia, the socialists and the communists DO have it right, and this is perhaps the major reason he records in his own books his great delight in hanging with them in college. But man's depravity has always been and will always be the fatal flaw in this theory.
On America's image in the world, in President Obama's utopia he is fine with the idea of "American Exceptionalism" being challenged or even turned upside down. Yet in reality no country has suffered more loss of its own, for the welfare of others in history. To Obama, an America that stands tall in contrast to others seems arrogant. To our enemies, an America that seems ashamed of herself seems weak.
President Obama is not a strong decision maker--most law professors aren't. They are too accustomed to arguing the issue from all sides possible. He is also a man who envisions a world that will never exist. It is his inability to see it thus, that tonight makes America more vulnerable, more hopeless, and without any immediate hope of changing coming anytime soon.
It is, in a word, dangerous.