Got a comment yesterday from someone who prefers to remain anonymous and not have their comment posted – sorta defeats the whole idea of commenting, but there ya go. Anyways, this person asked why I hated Barack Obama so, and called me an angry, mean-spirited conservative racist.

That’s the problem I have with political discourse nowadays. This whole political correctness thing has gotten absurd. People used to call Bill Clinton the “teflon president”, but believe me, he doesn’t hold a candle to Barack Obama. If you criticize the Prez for any reason it must be because he’s black and as a white man you resent a black man in the White House. Therefore, voila! you’re a racist. If you try to point out that he’s: a) never run as much as a lemonade stand in his life, b) has appointed admitted tax cheaters to his administration while expecting others to pay higher taxes to pay for his ambitious socialist agenda, c) can’t stop apologizing for anything and everything America has done in the past, and d) is employing his Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security as a weapon to advance his own ideas of “civil rights, well you’re just a mean-spirited, disgruntled conservative.

My biggest issue with President Obama is that he seems to be in an awful big rush advance his obvious progressive / leftist / quasi-socialist agenda. I’m not stupid – I know why: it’s Social Activism 101 to use a crisis like our present economic one to advance your own political agenda and gain power. See, I know Obama knows that there’s a better-than-average chance the economy is turning around by 4Q this year (or 1Q next year at the latest), and by that time he’ll have lost the momentum this economic crisis has given him, and therefore a lost opportunity for him and his Democrats in Washington to gain more power over people’s lives than they ever dreamed possible.

That’s not my opinion, that’s a fact. That’s the way the game is played in Washington – it’s all about obtaining and expanding power, that’s all.

Which brings me to my final point. You know what I think is really going through that commenter’s mind when he or she calls me a racist mean-spirited conservative? Fear. The fear that I’m right.

1. Right when I say that, take away all the pretty talk when there’s a TelePrompTer in front of him, there really isn’t anything special about the so-called “Anointed One”. He may be articulate and charismatic, but he’s someone without an original idea of his own – everything he is and has learned has been the result of careful tutelage under the wings of a bunch of radical Chicago social / liberal activists.

2. Right that he’s really nothing more than an inexperienced pol still enthralled with the idea of “being President” and the perks that come along with it, rather than someone “presidential” and a leader who understands both history and the power and responsibility that comes with the Presidency.

3. Right that were he white, the better and more experienced candidate Hillary Clinton would be President (that’s not being a racist, that’s just stating a fact), and she wouldn’t screw up this golden opportunity like Obama may be in the process of doing.

4. Right in being suspicious of his ambitious, beyond-the-pale spending plans when everyone they know is doing the same thing: cutting back on discretionary spending, paying down their credit cards, and eliminating the non-essentials. If everyone else is doing it, why can’t President Obama and the federal government?

5. Finally, at its very core, the fear I’m right when I say that this is not a “man of the people”, but an arrogrant prig who, after so many years of having people around him convincing him how wonderful and special he is, has actually come to believe it, to the point where he actually thinks everything he and his administration thinks and does is above any kind of reproach, criticism, and scrutiny.

And if the latter is true – as I believe it is – that’s something inherent in Presidents past we should all have plenty to be fearful of.

[Update: Rob correctly points out that Ronald Reagan was actually the first “teflon President”, so I stand corrected. My reasoning behind my observation, however, still stands – there is no President in recent memory that has been elected with so little vetting and so little media scrutiny as Barack Obama. If the media went after him the way they went after Sarah Palin, we’d be referring to “President Clinton” today, and the country would be a hell of a lot better off, in my view.]