By Ben Stein on 7.24.09 @ 9:45AM
Why is President Barack Obama in such a hurry to get his
socialized medicine bill passed?
Why is President Barack Obama in such a hurry to get his
socialized medicine bill passed?
Because he and his cunning circle realize some basic truths:
The American people in their unimaginable kindness and trust
voted for a pig in a poke in 2008. They wanted so much to believe
Barack Obama was somehow better and different from other
ultra-leftists that they simply took him on faith.
They ignored his anti-white writings in his books. They ignored
his quiet acceptance of hysterical anti-American diatribes by his
minister, Jeremiah Wright.
They ignored his refusal to explain years at a time of his life
as a student. They ignored his ultra-left record as a "community
organizer," Illinois state legislator, and Senator.
The American people ignored his total zero of an academic record
as a student and teacher, his complete lack of scholarship when
he was being touted as a scholar.
Now, the American people are starting to wake up to the truth.
Barack Obama is a super likeable super leftist, not a fan of this
country, way, way too cozy with the terrorist leaders in the
Middle East, way beyond naïveté, all the way into active
destruction of our interests and our allies and our future.
The American people have already awakened to the truth that the
stimulus bill -- a great idea in theory -- was really an immense
bribe to Democrat interest groups, and in no way an effort to
help all Americans.
Now, Americans are waking up to the truth that ObamaCare
basically means that every time you are sick or injured, you will
have a clerk from the Department of Motor Vehicles telling your
doctor what he can and cannot do.
The American people already know that Mr. Obama's plan to lower
health costs while expanding coverage and bureaucracy is a myth,
a promise of something that never was and never will be -- a
bureaucracy lowering costs in a free society. Either the costs go
up or the free society goes away.
These are perilous times. Mrs. Hillary Clinton, our Secretary of
State, has given Iran the go-ahead to have nuclear weapons,
an unqualified betrayal of the nation. Now, we face a devastating
loss of freedom at home in health care. It will be joined by
controls on our lives to "protect us" from global warming, itself
largely a fraud if believed to be caused by man.
Mr. Obama knows Americans are getting wise and will stop him if
he delays at all in taking away our freedoms.
There is his urgency and our opportunity. Once freedom is lost,
America is lost. Wake up, beloved America.
