The Great Leveler

Barack Obama will address Congress and the nation tonight. He will not spout Marx or give a Castro lecture but less overtly, his aims are virtually the same. He is a classic redistributionist at a time when our country nears an unrecoverable tipping point. The opposite of what was passed in the non-stimulus bill and his proposed higher taxes-this is what letting the Bush tax cuts expire means after all-was what was needed to restore confidence and start to reverse the decline. The only questions are: Are Obama's actions to force our descent into the hell of central planning and a command economy deliberate or is he so ill-equipped for the job that he knows no better? Never has a street agitator risen so fast and taken a nation down so far. Fred Hampton wins.