The Common Thread

The remarkable similarity between Jimmy Carter and Barack Hussein Obama has been pointed out before, but I think it is more easily defined in the statement that both believe that the US is just too big for her britches. We have enjoyed too much prosperity, too much opportunity, too much power. We have simply been too American. Just as South Carolina Democrat Fritz Hollings declared in his ringing bass-baritone that "there's just too much consuming going on" around here, our apologetic President is administering our dose of punishment for enjoying so much for so long. In Jimmy Carter, America had a real Puritan who was willing to share our suffering with us. He would have bravely put on his little sweater and braved absolute zero on the Kelvin scale, cracking into a pile of dust if he could just spare one poor beleaguered soul from suffering anywhere in the world. Carter earnestly thought his mission was to alleviate all suffering everywhere and as long as anyone was left behind, we all had the duty to share the pain. Obama does not pretend to bear this particular burden. He, his wife and daughters, and their close confidants are milking the position of the Presidency for everything it's worth. Let Carter and the other poor suckers wallow in austerity, the Obamas have moved on up on false pretenses-the man knows he was ill-prepared and is ill-equipped for the office and is going to work the position, to use the office with all the tricks of a community organizer to his own advantage just as he would have instructed his followers in his ACORN days in Chicago to use the system for every possible benefit available. While the jobless struggle to make ends meet, the Obamas enjoy lavish accommodations and banquets in Paris and Russia. Michelle sports a purse more expensive than many peoples' monthly mortgage payment. I will not forget the grief Nancy Reagan took for purchasing new White House china. No matter if Republicans use their own funds or private contributions, they must be held to account with ridiculous comparisons about how many homeless could have been fed, if the money was otherwise directed. While Carter saw the need to share the misery as he cut his own country down to size, Obama harbors no such delusions-he will ride high while we pound sand if and until the voting public figures him out.