Coronation and Adoration

A sea of believers witnessed the beatification this morning. They are devout, fervent, Obama's attraction deeply felt. The crowd's affinity was not something I had ever seen from an American audience directed at a politician. For me, the audience's slavish worship evoked a rally in Pyongyang. This is distressing, even deeply disturbing-these followers would do literally anything for the new great leader. I saw a white woman, blond and about thirty by appearance, holding her daughter with a tear in her eye. I felt like the Frenchman in the famous photograph as the Nazi occupation troops goosestepped into Paris. He was probably a veteran of the slaughter of the trenches and surely a lover of libertie, egalitie, and fraternitie, and he wept as he saw le Republique die. I too mourn for the liberties lost, for what the election will cost us. Obama will deliver the change he campaigned on-the question is what will we do to thwart him? If we can stop his initiative to national health care, the largest leap toward socialism, perhaps we can restrain the leftward slide. Physicians can start with their role as educators to explain how Obama's plan will ration care, deprive patient choice, and be mandatory. The Democrats will play the class envy card about how affluent doctors have become, and it is imperative that conservatives stand up and say that supporting one's family is not greed, and doctors should enjoy the same rights with their fee for service models after expending so much time and energy on professional education. training, and certification as athletes and performers (who often have much greater incomes) do. American medical professionals and our researchers have produced the most advances and the best patient care in the world. Before Obama initiates his program, doctors may have to collectively withhold all elective care to demonstrate to the public just how valuable and vital their day-to-day contribution is. Obama will deprive doctors who are literally lifesavers while boosting so-called "teaching professionals" because the education unions backed Barack to the hilt. So, we will have entrenched incompetents whose main achievement in life was earning a teaching certificate being buoyed with more pay, benefits, and tenure opportunity while professionals who were not at the bottom of their undergraduate classes, struggle to meet their obligations because Obama intends to impose socialized medicine.