...Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, along with many Democrats and far-leftists (a virtually redundant term), likely and quite privately thought they had died and gone to heaven with the sudden progress just achieved towards completing the fifth plank of the Communist Manifesto — on a Republican president’s watch.
Fifth Plank of the Communist Manifesto: Centralization of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.
As I watch events unfold, and think about the Bush years - the destabilizing effect of the wars, his big government initiatives, his initiation of "stimulus" into the lexicon with the paltry little tax rebate handout, TARP, the auto bailouts, his refusal to defend his administration - allowing the Left to define him - setting the stage for the Leftist route of 2008... I can't help from time to time but wonder about his loyalty to the country.
There, I said it. As much as I believe that George Bush's actions seem on the surface to be those of a kind man with a good heart and pure motivations, I wonder, and it niggles at the back of my mind like a parasite. Little to none of what we are currently going through would be possible without George W. Bush setting the stage in almost every aspect.