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发帖数: 29846 | 1 May 22, 2012 Posted by Warner Todd Huston
-By Warner Todd Huston
Matthew Continetti gives the President a D plus in his grade for his first
term in office and with a grade that low, let’s hope it is his only term in
office.
Continetti notes that Obama awarded himself a “a good, solid, B-plus” not
long ago but when he visited the cacklers at ABC’s The View he decided that
he shouldn’t assign himself a letter grade because his term is “
incomplete.”
Actually, as Continetti points out, his first term is essentially finished,
at least legislatively. Congress won’t be doing much more serious business
until after the coming election, so his work is practically done. Since the
work is basically done, Continetti feels a letter grade is quite apropos and
he gives Obama a D plus.
“One arrives at such a low mark only after a thorough–and scientific–
examination of the president’s record of broken promises and unfulfilled
expectations,” Continetti writes.
Obama’s failures are chronicled in Continetti’s grading, from foreign
policy, to jobs and the economy, to the healthcare debacle that few
Americans want, but the more interesting point Matthew makes is in what he
thinks Obama has done for conservatives.
Obama’s single achievement is something he scarcely intended and likely
will lament for the rest of his days: the reinvigoration and reorientation
of the right to first principles in the aftermath of the Bush presidency.
Prior to Obama’s ascendance, the right was riven between big-government
conservatives, libertarians, social conservatives, interventionists,
activists, and intellectuals. The right was more interested in its divisions
than its commonalities. Years of power had made us sloppy and complacent
and sometimes corrupt.
Then came Obama to unite the right, says Continetti.
Maybe he’s right. Let’s hope he’s right. Conservatives have always spent
far more time in purity tests amongst themselves while allowing the left to
steal march after march and drive their armies to victory while
conservatives are still at home base bickering.
This election coming will be the tell. Can we get the right together long
enough to depose this most destructive president in American history.
Continetti is confident but time will tell. |
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