Obama unbound -- our president wants to undo everything Reagan ever did

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/01/24/obama-unbound-our-president-
wants-to-undo-everything-reagan-ever-did/?intcmp=obnetwork

WASHINGTON � The media herd is stunned to discover that Barack Obama is a
man of the left. After 699 teleprompted presidential speeches, the
commentariat was apparently still oblivious. Until Monday's inaugural
address, that is.

Where has everyone been these four years? The only surprise is that Obama
chose his second inaugural, generally an occasion for "malice toward none"
ecumenism, to unveil so uncompromising a left-liberal manifesto.

But the substance was no surprise. After all, Obama had unveiled his
transformational agenda in his very first address to Congress, four years
ago (Feb. 24, 2009). It was, I wrote at the time, "the boldest social
democratic manifesto ever issued by a U.S. president."

Nor was it mere talk. Obama went on to essentially nationalize health
care, 18 percent of the U.S. economy -- after passing an $833 billion
stimulus that precipitated an unprecedented expansion of government
spending. Washington now spends 24 percent of GDP, fully one-fifth higher
than the postwar norm of 20 percent.

Obama's ambitions were derailed by the 2010 midterm shellacking that cost
him the House. But now that he's won again, the revolution is back, as
announced in Monday's inaugural address.

It was a paean to big government. At its heart was Obama's pledge to (1)
defend unyieldingly the 20th-century welfare state and (2) expand it
unrelentingly for the 21st.

The first part of that agenda -- clinging zealously to the increasingly
obsolete structures of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid -- is the
very definition of reactionary liberalism. Social Security was created
when life expectancy was 62. Medicare was created when modern medical
technology was in its infancy. Today's radically different demographics
and technology have rendered these programs, as structured, unsustainable.

Everyone knows that, unless reformed, they will swallow up the rest of the
budget.

As for the second part -- enlargement -- Obama had already begun that in
his first term with Obamacare. Monday's inaugural address reinstated yet
another grand Obama project -- healing the planet. It promised a state-
created green energy sector, massively subsidized (even as the state's
regulatory apparatus systematically squeezes fossil fuels, killing coal
today, shale gas tomorrow).

The playbook is well known. As Czech President (and economist) Vaclav
Klaus once explained, environmentalism is the successor to failed
socialism as justification for all-pervasive rule by a politburo of
experts. Only now, it acts in the name of not the proletariat but the
planet.

Monday's address also served to disabuse the fantasists of any Obama
interest in fiscal reform or debt reduction. This speech was spectacularly
devoid of any acknowledgment of the central threat to the postindustrial
democracies (as already seen in Europe) -- the crisis of an increasingly
insolvent entitlement state.

On the contrary. Obama is the apostle of the ever-expanding state. His
speech was an ode to the collectivity. But by that he means only
government, not the myriad of voluntary associations -- religious,
cultural, charitable, artistic, advocacy, ad infinitum -- that are the
glory of the American system.

For Obama, nothing lies between citizen and state. It is a desert, within
which the isolated citizen finds protection only in the shadow of
Leviathan. Put another way, this speech is the perfect homily for the
marriage of Julia -- the Obama campaign's atomized citizen, coddled from
cradle to grave -- and the state.

In the eye of history, Obama's second inaugural is a direct response to
Ronald Reagan's first. On Jan. 20, 1981, Reagan had proclaimed:
"Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the
problem." And then succeeded in bending the national consensus to his
ideology -- as confirmed 15 years later when the next Democratic president
declared "The era of big government is over." So said Bill Clinton, who
then proceeded to abolish welfare.

Obama is no Clinton. He doesn't abolish entitlements; he preserves the old
ones and creates new ones in pursuit of a vision of a more just social
order where fighting inequality and leveling social differences are the
great task of government.

Obama said in 2008 that Reagan "changed the trajectory of America" in a
way that Clinton did not. He meant that Reagan had transformed the
political zeitgeist, while Clinton accepted and thus validated the new
Reaganite norm.

Not Obama. His mission is to redeem and resurrect the 50-year pre-Reagan
liberal ascendancy. Accordingly, his second inaugural address,
ideologically unapologetic and aggressive, is his historical marker, his
self-proclamation as the Reagan of the left. If he succeeds in these next
four years, he will.



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Barack Obama, reelected by the dumbest and most fearful people in the
history of the United States of America.

Eric Holder, racist black murdering United States Attorney General, still
has his job.

Nancy Pelosi, Democrat criminal, accessory before and after the fact to
improper vetting of Barry Soetoro aka Barack Hussein Obama, a confirmed
felon using SSAN 042-68-4425, belonging to a dead man.

Obama ignored the brutal killing of an American diplomat in Benghazi, then
relieved American military officers who attempted to prevent said murder
in order to cover up his own ineptness.

Obama continues his goal of disarming America after known mentally
disturbed liberal Adam Peter Lanza killed 20 school children and 6 adults
in Sandy Hook Connecticut on December 14, 2012. Every single liberal
inspired and authored gun control law in existence failed to prevent this
tragedy.

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