I want to point out the danger behind such lines of thought. The public as of late has been ebbing and flowing with emotion. A dangerous situation as founder James Madison points out in the Federalist Papers where the ?tyranny of the majority? was pointed to as a real possibility in democracies. The United States has become increasingly apathetic, and today we are beginning to understand a true beginning of nihilism here on our soil. People did not vote based on their principles, they voted in the heat of the moment, to be a part of history, for an articulate leader instead of his ideas. When we stop being guided by our core beliefs, and begin to question everything our country has and continues to stand for, and then develop a mutual understanding that anyone can be right so in arguing your point you demonstrate old prejudices; we then become bewildered beasts in our own society. All it takes is for a situation to scare the people into looking into a man, or a god. Heidegger points out how a people will look for a ?superman? or god to lead them when they feel vulnerable. He would know after all. I do not mean to make any unfair comparisons, or be accused of reducto ad Hitlerum; however, if similarities exist, we would be derelict if we didn?t point this out.

Now we have President Obama. He is not Hitler, or a tyrant. Please do not misconstrue what I say as a mere ad hominem attack shallow in understanding. Can we please point out the fact that he is a mixture of the worst parts of our most liberal presidents? His ideas of an intellectual elite guiding us out opf the recession, and heading these bureaucracies reeks of Woodrow Wilson; his lack of understanding regarding the military, and promulgation of an argument to raise the number of troops and their pay and their benefits, but cutting the budget drastically; and the most lauded comparison with F.D.R. and his misguided belief that radical spending will drive the US out of an economic recession. Adding short term ?infrastructure? projects to rebuild roads and schools and anything else? where does someone who was a part of the 52,000 Citi employees fit in to that? After having worked as an IT recruiter for years, I cannot understand how an IT recruiter today finds a way to place his .Net Developer on a new project that involved re-paving I-495.

There are myriad particulars in President Obama?s speech last night that we can argue against. That would take more time than I have currently, and I have bored you enough as it is. I would point out the one thing people said the President needed to do in order to have a successful speech; instill confidence. Well the Dow is down 150 points. I will let the events pass final judgment on the level of success. And I would hope that MSNBC has tissues in their preparation rooms for their guest, to wipe the brown residue off their noses. No wonder they can?t smell how bad this stinks.

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-nick