So What Do We Have Against Obama?

Yes, I am opposed to Obama and the left. Yes, I disagree with nearly everything he has done as President. Yes, I believe history will reflect him as a man truly in over his head, ill equipped, with a warped and twisted sense of American history -- perhaps the worst President in the last 100 years.

If you visit this or other sites like it, you already know this.

So, I think what's needed is to explain WHY myself and so many others in the blogosphere are so opposed to this man. I want to do so in a dispassionate manner -- without any screaming or hollering. I want to appeal to common sense, to logic, to precedent, and to American history and doctrine. In this way, I hope to leave him and his supporters without that one crutch they always fall back on: that it's merely our opinion, that we are misinformed, and that they are simply more enlightened than we are. 

This will be a piece that will probably take several weeks to articulate, and I'll probably only add bits at a time to the running narrative. The subject is complex, and there is alot of ground to cover.

For starters though, let me start with my main reason for opposition. Capitalism. Capitalism, the free buying and selling of products, and the free profit and loss in the market, is the CHIEF reason why the west has prospered and advanced in the last 200 years. Any reasonable person would admit this. Capitalism has it's flaws, to be sure. To coin a phrase from the founders, "it's the worst possible system -- except for all the others".  There are winners and losers in a capitalistic system. There is risk, but there is also reward. To remove the possibility of failure in this system is also to remove the possibility of success. So it is in life as well.

In a nutshell, the current President sees this system, which is responsible for the highest standard of living, peace and prosperity the world has ever known, as evil, corrupt and exploitative. From a strictly FACTUAL standpoint, he is simply wrong. Being wrong about such very basic concepts can be a dangerous thing, but can prove disastrous if it happens to a leader.

More to come in the days and weeks ahead.