Why America is nervous
Obama is the stereotypical great-aunt that sweeps into the Christmas dinner casually boasting about what she is going to do for this niece and that nephew, while most roll their eyes with the understanding that her credit cards are long ago maxed out — and more likely she will be hitting up relatives for loans. Americans don’t like magnanimity with other people’s money.
Hanson is good throughout that piece, but still, like almost everyone writing about Obama, he’s averting his eyes to some extent. This president is not just the Democrats’ version of George Bush. There’s something so wrong about him that it’s nearly impossible to miss. What that thing is has nothing to do with his race. In fact, he is helped by being nominally black. It distracts the mind and the eye from the fundamental problem: the sense that this man has no respect for America or Americans and, worse, means to bring harm to this country under the mask of a political messiah.
Yes, he’s an amateur in the wrong sense of the word, he can’t lead and wouldn’t know where to lead if he could, he’s cheesy and deft at being cheesy, and he creeps out anyone prepared to look the situation in the eye. But that leads to something else. It leads to a burning existential reality: he is being reckless with our lives and our future and he does not or cannot care.