The Hill Street Blahg

With all of the political rhetoric being spread around these days, it’s hard to keep up with it all. Jeffery Lord over at the American Spectator brings up some important facts today in which many, including myself, may have overlooked but not forgotten. His essay is titled Jimmy Carter’s Second Term and substantiates a poignant issue which desperately needs to be aired.

The irony of it all, is how both Democrat Presidential hopefuls crow about how a John McCain presidency will be nothing more than a third George Bush term. Mr. Lord however, expertly describes how a Barack Obama presidency will be nothing more than a Jimmy Carter second term which is even more frightening. Here’s an excerpt from Mr. Lord’s interesting essay which everyone needs to read.

Which makes the audacity of the Obama campaign more than amusing — and amazing — to watch. Consciously or not, Obama has selected the philosophical template of the Carter administration, from defunding the military, fighting the “special interests” down to imposing the windfall profits tax on the rich. Well, as Justice Clarence Thomas might say: whoop-dee-damn-do! This is precisely the philosophy of Jimmy Carter, although Carter had the good sense not to campaign as the pacifist he really is in 1976, waiting until the moment his hand came off the bible for that.

IS IT POSSIBLE that America really wants to return to those depressing days of gas lines and leisure suits? Of malaise and shock over the aggressiveness of America’s enemies? The days when the policies Obama is advocating raised unemployment rates, interest rates and inflation rates into the double digits? When America’s enemies looked the President of the United States in the eye — and found he really wanted to kiss them on the cheek?