The Doubt of the Obamites

Here is Margery Eagan, a self-identified 2008 Obamite, expressing doubt that our progressivist President knows the way out of the ditch he blames the Republicans for putting us in.


She starts by relating Obama's tale:

Barack Obama offered up this metaphor yesterday: America's a car that Republicans drove into a ditch.

Then along came Obama and the Democrats. "We put our boots on and went down into the ditch, and we started pushing that car out," the president told the cheering crowd. "It was hot down there and muddy, but we kept on pushing. And every once in a while we looked up and the Republicans are standing up there tanning themselves, sipping Slurpees, and we say, 'Hey, are you gonna help?' "

But the Republicans told us, said Obama, "You're not pushing the right way."

You're not pushing the right way.

I don't think the president meant to undermine anybody's confidence with his wrong-way-out-of-the-ditch story yesterday. But that's the nagging question ­ isn't it? Even among the once-Obamified, like me? We're afraid he's not really getting us out of our ditch. And the ditch is getting deeper. And it's very scary stuff.

In part, that's the exhausted-of-defending-him sentiment that is keeping the left-leaning independents and the moderate Democrats on the sidelines this election.  That's the reason the surveys can't tell you who will show up at the polls on election day.

And there's more than that.  Eagan says

But you know what? I read newspapers and watch the news for a living. Yet even I can't figure out if health care or Wall Street reform are really good for us or not.

Then, she closes with this

There are no guarantees.  But I, for one, would feel much better with some kind of evidence that Obama's GPS works.

So there's much more than control of the Congress hanging in the balance now. Progressivism's claim, incredible to those who can think for themselves, that the entire economy can be centrally planned and centrally managed for our benefit hangs there, too