The End Of America

Barack Obama's First Press Conference

BO: We are facing the greatest economic challenge of our lifetime, and we're going to to have to act swiftly to resolve.
Translation: If I act too slowly, you'll probably pick up on the fact that I'm socializing the country.

BO: We will review the implementation of the Administration's financial program to ensure the government's efforts are helping homeowner and not unduly rewarding the management of financial firms that are receiving government assistance.
Translation: Don't worry, Peggy Joseph, I'm gonna take all those Wall Street fat cat salaries and golden parachutes and use them to pay your mortgage and put gas in your car.

BO: It is absolutely critical that the Treasury work closely the FDIC, HUD and other government agencies to help families avoid foreclosure.
Translation: Lenders and borrowers are irrelevant in my version of Utopia.


BO: We cannot afford to wait on moving forward on clean energy, health-care, education and tax relief for the middle class.
Translation: I can get blood from a turnip.

Great Expectations

It’s About To Get Dickensian Up In Here

Peggy Joseph, perhaps better than any professional pundit, summed up the expectations many on the Left have for a Barack Obama presidency when she said, “I won’t have to worry about paying my mortgage; I won’t have to worry about gas in my car.”

Hmm.

I’m guessing that Ms Joseph either plans to marry Mr Obama, or be appointed to a post in his cabinet.
Failing that, Ms Joseph will still have to worry about paying her mortgage and putting gas in her car.

She, and others like her, are in for some hard lessons.

The president, it is true, can effect many changes.
But there are some things the president cannot do.
Let’s review those things the president cannot do.

He cannot go to school for you.
He cannot go to college for you.
He cannot go to work for you.
He cannot pay your mortgage.
He cannot put gas in your car.
He cannot marry your baby’s mama.
He cannot do your child’s homework.
He cannot sacrifice so that you can afford the best possible education for your child.

In short, ask not what Obama can do for you; ask how you can be more like Obama.