Now Obama Is French!
02/10/2009 by Peter HartNewsweek's current cover declares, "We Are All Socialists Now." But it's actually another story from the magazine that pushes the notion that Obama is likely heading the country in a (gasp!) European direction.
Michael Freedman's piece certainly doesn't start off on the right foot:
Have you noticed that Barack Obama sounds more like the president of France every day?
Newsweek laments the "distinctly continental sniff" of Obama's economic rhetoric, which apparently evokes "business bashing and protectionism" that was, until recently, "largely relegated to the far left." The real problem, though, is what it's going to do to us Americans:
Slow growth could kill rugged American individualism, too. Healthcare in the U.S. is for the most part tied to employment, so if job numbers continue to look dismal, or get even worse, an ever-greater number of people will start looking to the government for support.... It's very easy to imagine a chorus of former American individualists demanding cushy French-style pensions and free British-style healthcare if their private stock funds fail to recover and unemployment inches upward toward 10 percent and remains there.
Pensions and healthcare for all-- this is worse than we thought!
Tags: Barack Obama, Healthcare, Newsweek
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February 10th, 2009 at 5:22 pm
Wouldn't it be great if Obama really was the radical these dipshits make him out to be?
But he isn't … not close … and people will die because of it.
That's the bottom line, isn't it … who lives and who dies in the games played by the powerful?
It isn't about our self-centered "political orientations" … it isn't about politics as a pastime.
It's about living and dying. Simple as that. Profound as that.
So what are we going to do about it?
February 10th, 2009 at 6:29 pm
Hey, if we go European it's OK with me !! Over there the government is afraid of the people, over here the people are afraid of the government. What is the difference between capitalist Nazi's and our corrupt political/economic power structure and the so-called evils of socialist reforms ?? We just might be looking at a better horse. It is about time the political capitalist gangsters lost their spots.
March 6th, 2009 at 2:30 pm
Just how "French" is the Hungarian's son anyway? I don't think characterizing Obama as "French" is at all fair to him, the French President, or the French people, who might not identify that behavior as particularly "French."