Charles Krauthammer on Obama

**King 5.45** · March 2nd, 2009, 02:04 PM

Obama sees the current economic crisis as an opportunity. He has said so openly. And now we know what opportunity he wants to seize.

Just as the Depression created the conditions for Franklin Roosevelt's transformation of America from laissez-faireism to the beginnings of the welfare state, the current crisis gives Obama the political space to move the still (relatively) modest American welfare state toward European-style social democracy.

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**stevieb92** · March 2nd, 2009, 08:57 PM

It's CHANGE!!!

**1861** · March 2nd, 2009, 09:04 PM

AND WE WILL ALL GET FREE STUFF!

**adymond** · March 3rd, 2009, 12:23 PM

Clearly Krauthammer has no idea what socialism is. We aren't moving toward socialism. C'mon guys.

**1861** · March 3rd, 2009, 12:39 PM

Originally Posted by adymond

Clearly Krauthammer has no idea what socialism is. We aren't moving toward socialism. C'mon guys.

Yep , and Nancy Pelosi does not look like a freak.

**Exbiker** · March 3rd, 2009, 01:00 PM

He`s just making a commentary. The democracy he said was referring to is the European-style social democracy. Not what we think of as Democracy and our government spending is climbing to their levels.
It didn`t seem he really supports it but just commented on it. Krauthammer is a really smart guy who is basically conservative but does have his own thoughts on a few hot topics. He is a very independent thinker.

**King 5.45** · March 3rd, 2009, 01:07 PM

Europe and the US remind me of the two people who go flying by each other in the sky, asking each other, respectively, if they know anything about gas appliances and parachutes. Our systems are going through rapid changes, some of which are unquestionably detrimental to a majority of the populace.

How long do we swim in the pot, froggies?

**Roland of Gilead** · March 3rd, 2009, 01:12 PM

Krauthammer's a reasonably smart guy. He did a great job about a month ago.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/art...ff_faster.html

The finish: "After Obama's miraculous 2008 presidential campaign, it was clear that at some point the magical mystery tour would have to end. The nation would rub its eyes and begin to emerge from its reverie. The hallucinatory Obama would give way to the mere mortal. The great ethical transformations promised would be seen as a fairy tale that all presidents tell -- and that this president told better than anyone.

I thought the awakening would take six months. It took two and a half weeks."