Obama Overturns Reagan's Three-Legged Stool

The Observer (Kampala)

Uganda: Obama Overturns Reagan's Three-Legged Stool
Martyn Drakard
8 September 2010

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Book: Conservative Victory. Defeating Obama's Radical Agenda

Author: Sean Hannity

Publisher: Harper Collins 2010


For the past two years, Barack Obama's autobiographies and books about him and wife, Michelle, have been coming thick and fast.

It's refreshing, then, to come across Sean Hannity, who asks questions and gives answers you might not find anywhere else.

A great philosophical divide has always separated the American people, he says, quoting Ronald Reagan: those who support free-market capitalism and the country's venerated institutions, and the others who think government regulations and control will solve everything that's wrong with the country.

Americans, he goes on, are centre-right politically, and shows that Gallup polls in late 2009 and early 2010 report that twice as many Americans identify themselves as conservative as liberal (left of centre). But the present leftist administration seems set on running down everything the US stands for.

Obama's own past life is interesting. The influence of his mother, described by one critic as a communist "fellow-traveller", and other leftist mentors, on his political thought and his religious skepticism left its mark. And a quick look at his advisors makes you wonder.

Cass Sunstein, his "regulatory czar" thinks that animals, through human agents, should be enabled to bring private lawsuits to ensure anti-cruelty laws are enforced.

Ron Bloom, his "manufacturing czar" says the free-market is "nonsense"; Kevin Jennings, the "safe-schools" advisor and Harry Knox, on his faith-based advisory council, are homosexual activists.

John Holdren, director of the Office of Science and Technology policy recommends compulsory human sterilization; Kathleen Sebelius, Health and Human Services secretary is strongly pro-abortion, as is Dawn Johnson, head of the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel.

During his term, Hannity claims, Obama is trying hard to push over-reaching legislation designed to control every aspect of Americans' lives. One of the left's favoured tactics is the Orwellian distortion of language to make unpopular beliefs and policies more palatable.

The present president is trying to overturn the three-legged stool of Reagan: strong defence, strong economy and strong social values, among which is opposition to same-sex unions, and abortion which he likened to slavery.

"How can we survive as a free nation when some decide that others are not fit to live and should be done away with?" Reagan asked at a convention in January, 1984.

Conservative Victory, published this year, gives the background of the controversial Health Care Bill, with its trade-offs and last-minute sell-outs. You might not like what he writes or agree with it.