Obama The Vacuous!

New Face, Yes, But With Ideas Dating To '30s

By THOMAS SOWELL
April 29, 2008

The following is the conclusion of Thomas Sowell’s article; the full article is referenced below:

Tried And Failed

Although Sen. Obama has presented himself as the candidate of new things — using the mantra of "change" endlessly — the cold fact is that virtually everything he says about domestic policy comes straight out of the 1960s and virtually everything he says about foreign policy is straight out of the 1930s.

Protecting criminals, attacking business, increasing government spending, promoting a sense of envy and grievance, raising taxes on people who are productive and subsidizing those who are not — all this is a re-run of the 1960s.

We paid a terrible price for such 1960s notions in the years that followed, in the form of soaring crime rates, double-digit inflation and double-digit unemployment. During the 1960s, ghettoes across the country were ravaged by riots from which many have not fully recovered to this day.

The violence and destruction were concentrated not where the greatest poverty or injustice existed, but where there were the most liberal politicians, promoting grievances and hamstringing the police.

Internationally, the approach that Obama proposes — including the media magic of meetings between heads of state — was tried during the 1930s. That approach, in the name of peace, is what led to the most catastrophic war in human history.

Everything seems new to those too young to remember the old and too ignorant of history to have heard about it.

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