The biggest surprises of Barack Obama’s
second inaugural address were its brevity and absence of personal
pronouns. Delivered with passion, Obama presented his leftist agenda
embellished by feel-good words like patriotism, constitution, brave
soldiers, and America the greatest country on earth. He interjected some
lip
service to risk taking and individual achievement in passing, but his
main message never swerved from the fact that we need bigger and more
invasive government.
Obama’s soothing code words, assertions, propositions, and
contradictions probably flew by an audience that went away thinking: Who
could object to what he said?”
I required a careful reading of the speech transcript to piece together his liberal agenda of communal action, universal positive rights, redistribution, equal rights, and anti-business sentiment. His
address lays out a blunt in-your-face, take-no-prisoners program that
half the American people reject. And that is a problem.
As with health care, Obama urges that his agenda be enacted with
great urgency: “Decisions are upon us, and we cannot afford delay.” The
obstacles are great. The community-organized voices of the people must
overcome the resistance of those on the other side of the aisle who
“mistake absolutism for principle or substitute spectacle for politics,
or treat name-calling as reasoned debate.” The President and the people
“have the obligation to shape the debates of our time.”
go to forbes.com
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