Liberty Maven

There are reports that Barack Obama’s speech to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday will be “very forceful”. I’m curious if he’ll pull a George W. Bush and call his health reform opponents the “axis of evil”.

It is unlikely he’d be so honest about his feelings. Instead we will have to consider the following quote from Theodore Dreiser:

Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.

In fact, that quote sums up a lot about Barack Obama (and most Presidents I might add). We live in a public relations world. I miss the days of Calvin Coolidge (not that I was alive back then). He delivered speeches standing on the White House lawn reading off of a piece of paper. It was simple and responsible. All presidents should be this “boring”.

It seems to me that we’ve replaced one George W. Bush with another. One was forced to wage a war on terror. This incarnation is waging a war on health care, and potentially American capitalism itself.

I hope this new war finds the opposing side victorious.