Roman Around

obama with friends

It won’t be just a matter of rearranging the furniture, hanging up different souvenir vacation plates and throwing some newspaper on the floor for the new puppy. President-elect Barack Obama is going to put on his “Executive Order” game-face the moment the word “elect” is dropped from his title. Expect an orgy of “undoing” from the earliest moments of a new Obama administration, reversing a slew of Bush-era Executive Orders.

As Steven Ohlemacher of the Associated Press writes:

Bush used his executive power to limit federal spending on embryonic stem cell research, a position championed by opponents of abortion rights who argue that destroying embryos is akin to killing a fetus. Obama has supported the research in an effort to find cures for diseases such as Alzheimer’s. Many moderate Republicans also support the research, giving it the stamp of bipartisanship.

On drilling, the federal Bureau of Land Management is opening about 360,000 acres of public land in Utah to oil and gas drilling. Bush administration officials argue that the drilling will not harm sensitive areas; environmentalists oppose it.

Having already said that the first thing he would do as President is sign the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) – which would effectively nullify restrictions on killing the unborn while allowing “Joe the Plumber’s” tax dollars to be shuffled over to fund on-demand abortions – don’t hold your breath for a heck of a lot of “centrism” (whatever that means) coming from President Obama’s Oval Office.

Rather, expect an Obamacraticly bastardized definition of centrist – i.e. hard-left positions sold with tickle-me-Elmo allure, embraced by an excited and aroused media machine – to once again redefine the terms of the cultural landscape. As long as the demonization of conservatism can continue, peddled with those soul-soothing pipes of President Obama’s, reinforced by hypnotized neo-Beatlemaniacs swooning before his first chord is even played, traditional steadfasts (like me) will be continually characterized as more and more extreme – even though we’ve done nothing more than maintain our value system (the American value system).

Hey, if Obama says something is centrist – and says it enough – then by golly, it is. If Obama says traditional American values are in need of changing – or fundamental transforming – then, jeepers, they must be.

Messiahs don’t lie.

Besides, the Obamunist mindset is one of simply disregarding and shrugging off the very real cultural battles being waged in this country – those that matter to conservatives. Only whack job right-wingers, obsessed with automatic weapons and God gobbledygook, stuck in a Father Knows Best world of tie-wearing bagboys and supper-preparing Stepfords, expend any thought or energy on antiquated social matters like same-sex marriage and abortion – at least according to the next President of the United States.

As Obama famously said in front of a Planned Parenthood get-together:

I am absolutely convinced that the ‘culture wars’ are just so 90s. Their days are growing dark. It’s time to turn the page. We want a new day here in America. We’re tired of arguing about the same old stuff.

“Same old stuff?!?”

Yes, Virginia, those words came from the lips of a Democrat.

The pot and the kettle need to spend more time together.
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