Now Obama's a "disappointed parent"
You know, this is going to get rather easy (although scary at the same time).
The country elected a President, not a Daddy. I understand, like a lot of Americans are not happy that their tax money (present and future) went to pay for the billions in "bonuses". That said, the last thing I want to hear is that I elected a new Father-figure:
President Obama found the news about the Wall Street bonuses "outrageous," Gibbs said. "I think many of you have covered him. I've seen him upset at times. He doesn't really get fired-up upset. He's more like that disappointed parent, you know, that doesn't embarrass you in the mall, but you feel like you've let somebody down. So I think yesterday, when you see something like that from the president, I think you can understand that that was from his gut and that was real. Nobody begrudges people that are successful and make money. Somebody who's running a very successful company that's making its shareholders money and serving the American people responsibly, nobody would begrudge that happening..."
This seems to be an overarching theme with Liberals - they truly believe that they know better how things should be run. That's fine - to a point; I certainly think that I, as a conservative, have better ideas than they do.
There is, however, one huge difference - a lot of my ideas are oriented around Government simply extracting itself from the lives of its citizens. Too often, laws are passed that continue constrict what ordinary people can or cannot do. Liberals / Progressives seemingly want to put more Government into and around our lives. They just feel, in their bones, that they should have the right to tell everyone else how to run their lives.
Daddy-in-Chief?
No thanks.
I do not want a President that has that attitude towards me, that I am nothing but yet another child in the brood to take care of. That is the essence of the Nanny state (and the busybodies that have created and perpetuated it). My choices are not their's, nor is the reverse to be true. I highly resent the notion that just because they are different that I should not be allowed to choose them, even if I mix a pound of salt, high-fructose sugar, and trans-fats for a midnight snack or spend too many hours at my keyboard instead of running marathons or eating brie with the latest wine.
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Posted by: Michael Kitch | February 3, 2009 12:54 PM