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Barack Obama's change we can believe in: he has turned Camelot
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By Gerald Warner* January 20th, 2010
Exactly one year ago today Barack Obama was inaugurated as President of
the United States amid scenes more appropriate to the enthronement of a
Pharaoh than the initiation of a democratic leader. Remember the
hysteria, the gushing sycophancy of the liberal media, the Disneyland
hype? One year later, it is all over for the Messiah. Obama has finally
provoked change we can believe in: he has turned Massachusetts
Republican.
Camelot has turned bright red. It is comfortably in the hands of the
GOP. From early in the count Republican Scott Brown established an
unassailable 5-point lead over Martha Coakley, the arrogant Democrat
candidate who epitomised the sense of entitlement that characterises the
members of the liberal establishment. She was a caricature of Democrat
prejudices, down to being a cradle Catholic who championed abortion –
like her rebarbative predecessor Edward Kennedy. At 2.15am (our time)
the Boston Globe reported that Coakley had telephoned Brown to concede
defeat. That historic conversation effectively called time on the Obama
administration.
It takes a real mental effort to come to terms with the notion of a man
named Brown being an effective and worthwhile politician, but in
Massachusetts that is the reality. Brown created an electoral
insurgency. He articulated all the resentment of decent Americans
against the liberal establishment. In doing so he has overturned the
Democrats’ 60-seat presence in the Senate which until last night made
them invulnerable to a Republican filibuster and made it possible for
them to railroad Obama’s insane, statist, totalitarian health care
“reforms” through Congress.
No more. If the Democrats even attempted to use procedural tricks to
rush the healthcare dog’s breakfast through before Brown takes his seat,
America would not stand for such a blatant evasion of the popular will
on so controversial a measure. It simply isn’t going to happen. Nor is
any of the rest of the Obama fantasy. The Republicans are now poised to
take control of the House in November. Obama has had his year of power,
but now he is a busted flush.
And what a year it was. Retreat, abasement and blunders in every area of
foreign policy, from North Korea to sell-out to Russia on nuclear
weapons. This blog always insisted Obama would be a one-term president.
Even I, however, had not counted on his being a one-year wonder. Even
Anne of the Thousand Days had a longer run than that. Americans have
proved they can spot a phoney in 12 months. That shames Britain’s
record: the deluded electorate here voted three times for the Great
Charlatan Blair.
To see the pricking of the Obama balloon is delightful. Congratulations,
America. Happy anniversary, Mr President.
*Gerald Warner is an author,
broadcaster, columnist and polemical commentator who writes about
politics, religion, history, culture and society in general.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/author/geraldwarner
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