President Obama and His "Control Issues"

President Obama and His "Control Issues"

“This is just un-American! This is not the way things should be in my country…”

I took careful note of these words, as I sat in a bar and listened to a friend venting about his struggle. It was the week between Christmas Day, and New Year’s Day, and my friend (we’ll call him “Dave”), a former colleague from the media industry who has been unemployed for several months, did not have an optimistic outlook for 2010.

“I figured that I’d go ahead and get the ‘Obama loan’” Dave told me as he explained the difficulty he had with...