The Milquetoast Wit

There are examples of government-run health care failing in other countries. However, those failures should never have deterred the United States from implementing its own health care system. Just because England and Canada’s health care systems are less than great, that doesn’t mean America’s version was doomed to failure. What has doomed America’s version to failure is the same egomaniacal attitude that propelled a Hawaiian kid to the oval office. President Obama believes he is always right, and that is a wonderful trait to have in a leader because that confidence inspires faith in followers, but that always-right attitude needs to come from something more than ignoring what other people say. Unfortunately, the Hindenburg-sized catastrophe that is healthcare.gov has revealed the President’s confidence to be nothing more than arrogance. The rollout of HealthCare.gov has been an unmitigated disaster with finger pointing all-around. On October 31, it was reported that th...

In a recent interview, President Obama suggested that the desire for wealth and celebrity are destroying America’s middle class. He claimed that what his generation aspired to was much simpler and more achievable, and that having enough to provide for your family is all that you should seek. While this is probably sound advice for how to be happy in life, it sounds a bit hypocritical coming from the most powerful man in the world. The president’s statements, when boiled down, sound an awful lot like “know your place.” The man, who has spent all of his adult life striving for greater and greater power, is telling millions of people that their ambition is destroying middle class America. The hypocrisy is palatable. No man who has ever been elected President has done so without any ambition. It wasn’t like we elected Barack Obama to be President in spite of his protests; we didn’t force him to campaign for the position. He wanted the prestige, the fame, the power, and there is nothing...