"Yes, We Can," Does Not Necessarily Mean "Yes, We Will"

In watching Senator Barack Obama give what could have been his general election victory speech, I was struck by just how appealing he was ... and all of this after coming out from under the "prophetic" mantle of Rev. Wright to invoke the blessing of God on America, dodging lightening from the potential thunderstorm of the Weather Underground association, marching the rural God-Country-Guns crowd from Pennsylvania to the verbal firing squad, etc. In a word, the electricity emanating from Obama felt real. For a moment ... a brief moment ... but a moment nonetheless ... Obama felt like the messiah for our times.

Problem.

What does Obama mean when he is proud of American values that are supposedly neither Liberal nor Conservative ... but are in fact laced with pinkish red socialism? Is it the government's responsibility to secure health care for all people ... despite whether they want to work or not? Is it the government's responsibility to ensure that all children can financially afford to go to college ... when some of those "all" refuse to do the work in middle and high school that is necessary to help them succeed once they are there? Is it the government's responsibility to pick the winners and losers in the game of life-economics?

In Obama's vision for America, equal opportunity for all seems to mean equal results demanded from all.

Problem.

Obama says that he does not expect the government to solve all of our problems ... yet, the Fathers' intent was that government would solve very few problems of the citizenry. Government was intended to only make the playing field safe and civil so that the citizenry could solve their own problems by their own hard work and moral integrity.

Solution.

This is where the Fathers' envisioned the place of religion in our society ... as an instructor for personal and social morality ... and ... to provide welfare for the poor and the needy. Big Brother is not and cannot successfully be the instructor of morals nor the largess provider for the populous.

Caution.

This has been tried has been tried before. Remember "The Great Society." Yeah ... it has helped to spawn the systematic dismantling of the family. Yeah ... it has helped to spawn the vast entitlement mentality embraced by so many in my own generation and in the one to come.

Question.

How does Obama value hard work and self-reliance while valuing pinkish-red socialism that has spawned weakened families and pandemic entitlement mentalities?

Vote.

Yes, vote for whoever you want. But please understand that government makes a very poor god.