This administration continues to express its desire to take advantage of the economy's downturn. It's now clearer than ever what President Obama meant when he talked about "change" on the campaign trail.
In his Saturday radio address, the president declared our "great crisis" to be a "great opportunity," indicating, as two members of his administration already had, that this White House is not above exploiting public anxiety to press an extremist agenda.
"We've experienced great trials before," Obama said. "And with every test, each generation has found the capacity to not only endure, but to prosper — to discover great opportunity in the midst of great crisis."
Taken alone at a time of uncertainty, the president's words should be reassuring and inspirational. But in this case, considering this administration's eagerness to radically alter America's social and political landscape, unnerving is more like it.
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It didn't help that only a few hours earlier Venezuela's ever-unhelpful president, Hugo Chavez, invited Obama to "come with us on the road to socialism." "This is the only path," he said in a speech. "Imagine a socialist revolution in the United States."
If Chavez ever extended such an invitation to, say, President Bush, he would have been laughed out of the hemisphere. Why are we not laughing now?
Excellent question. Read the whole thing.
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