Posted by
Compassionate Conservative on Friday, September 11, 2009 2:11:56 PM
Another letter to the editor of the Harrisburg Patriot-News:
"I see where mind-reading columnist Thomas Friedman claims that many Republicans "just want President Barack Obama to fail." He must be using his ESP, because although some Republicans have predicted Obama will fail and that it will be his downfall, I have yet to see where any have said they want him to fail. It's also possible that Friedman is delusional, like so many other liberals, because, among other things, he also refers to Obama as a "centrist," which his record shows he clearly is not.
I can only speak for myself, but I believe I do speak for most Americans - Democrats as well as Republicans - when I say that I hope our country does well enough to remain the greatest country in the world. I also hoped that in the 1970s, however, when the mis-administration of one James Earl Carter turned us into a second-rate power. Unfortunately, Carter's policies were guaranteed to fail, and all the hope in the world couldn't have and didn't change that fact. So it will be with Obama's disastrous policies of government intervention in the marketplace and appeasement of terrorist-sponsoring states such as Iran. I hope I'm wrong, but I'm not wrong.
American business will ride the engine of entrepreneurship to win in the global business arena, not by having the taxpayer subsidize health insurance. We will also not win in the globalized economy by making our businessmen slaves to treaties designed to prevent "global warming" when those treaties, like the Kyoto Accords, place no comparable burden on China or India. The Indians and the Chinese aren't foolish enough to sign anything like that, so why should we be? Most international corporate managers, eastern financiers, and technology entrepreneurs understand this quite well, and the ones who don't will soon be reminded of how true it is. Meantime, Tom Friedman should take his ESP act to the circus, where it belongs."