I am going back to my first impression of Obama. During the last few months of the campaign, his lifelong association with and mentoring by people who hated America caused me great concern that he was their Trojan Horse. His mission was to penetrate the inner circles of power, and to open the gates for the people who groomed him. But his selection of his new administration, predominantly second-tier retreads from the Clinton and even the Carter administrations, belie that concern. The fact that he has even been so silly as to give the Clinton’s a cabinet post from which to snipe at him, undermine him, and use their old connections with people from their administration to intrigue against him, reinforces my thoughts that my first impression was the more accurate.

            So what was my first impression? That Hillary Clinton was the greater threat. She is more radical left than her husband, has always been the bread winner in the family and knows how to get things done, and she is ruthless. It is entirely conceivable that if elected President without getting the ego-spanking she has received running for President in the past year, she might have helped Bill Clinton to become the next Secretary General of the United Nations, and signed treaties with the UN that would have superseded our own laws, our own constitution, and our own sovereignty. Scary.

            And Obama? A person who has been groomed from childhood by radicals to be a next generation radical. A person whose every success in life was engineered for him by someone else, almost invariably someone who hated America, and dropped in his lap. A person with no apparent accomplishments of his own. A person without his own vision, but a very effective showman. A person whose rhetorical skills are focused upon what people will approve of him saying, rather than upon enlightening them. A fellow who cannot make a decision and stand by it in the face of criticism, but will equivocate, obfuscate or vote “present” incessantly rather than make allow himself to be pinned down. A fellow who recognizes the power structure and does what he is told, going along to get along to advance himself. He is a machine politician, but as a foot soldier, not as an officer.

But now, he is at the top. He is where everything he was ever told, by everyone he ever listened to, he would never be. And he just doesn’t have the skills he needs in order to lead. Those who groomed him to be the Trojan Horse are likewise unprepared for this victory, because even though he is now inside the walls of Troy, they are not. He could not carry them inside, without being exposed for what he is and what they have been to him, and losing the election. 

So now what? He needs to staff an administration without the people that he could not carry inside because they are too radical, too controversial. The Prophet of Change has limited himself to leftovers from previous democrat administrations, because they will be tolerated. They will do all the work for him, since they have a clue what it is and he does not, and take the blame if things go wrong. He will be happy to take the credit if things go well. Now he has a new house, new prestige, new fame. And he wants to stay there. The new Obama may need to change every fabric of his life, in order to become the new Obama he needs to be to keep what he has won. On the job training for the state senator from Illinois has just begun.

Meanwhile, we need to continue doing exactly the same thing we would have needed to do, regardless of who won the election. Over two thirds of the American people share our core beliefs and values. We must continue building the grassroots organization to enable the American people to rise up and stop their government from doing the wrong thing. And when the government begins to do something that two thirds of us agree is unacceptable, we must unite in opposition. As Thomas Jefferson said, “Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.” Our way of life remains secure only so long as we make it so.