We don't need Barack Obama to create "change." Things change in
politics, in the economy, and elsewhere in American society, without
waiting for a political messiah to lead us into the promised land.

Despite the incessantly repeated mantra of "change," Barack Obama's
politics is as old as the New Deal.

Senator Obama's statement that "our economy is in turmoil" is standard
stuff on the left and in the mainstream media, which has been dying to
use the word "recession."

Not only has the economic slowdown failed to reach the definition of a
recession, the most recent data show the U.S. economy growing at a
rate exceeding 3 percent-- a rate that many European economies
[socialist] would die for, despite our being constantly urged to
imitate those countries whose end results are not as good as ours.

Barack Obama's "change" is a recycling of the kinds of policies and
rhetoric of the New Deal that prolonged the Great Depression of the
1930s far beyond the duration of any depression before or since.

These are the same kinds of liberal policies that led to double-digit
inflation, double-digit interest rates and rising unemployment during
the Carter administration. These are "back to the future" changes to
economic disasters that need repeating.

Make no mistake, the political rhetoric of FDR was great. For those
who admire political rhetoric, as so many of Barack Obama's supporters
seem to, FDR was tops. For those who go by actual results, FDR's track
record was abysmal.

Senator Obama's rhetoric today is the anti-business and class warfare
rhetoric that worked so brilliantly in a political sense for FDR in
the 1930s. But Obama is following an opposite course from FDR when it
comes to recognizing threats to American national security.

Senator Obama has repeatedly tried to deal with national security
threats with rhetoric. He tried to dismiss the threat of a nuclear
Iran with because Iran is "a small nation"-- even though it is larger
than Japan, which launched a devastating attack against the United
States at Pearl Harbor.

FDR had the good sense to begin urging greater military preparedness
in 1940, more than a year before the United States was attacked. He
said, "If you wait until you see the whites of their eyes, you will
never know what hit you."

Cutting the military budget and taking foreign policy problems to the
United Nations are Obama's version of "change."

That is change that we dare not believe in. It is the audacity of
hype.

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