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Year One in the Age of Obama -- By: An NRO Symposium

Source: National Review Online

Nov 04, 2009

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Does President Obama match up to Candidate Obama? Did the rise of the oceans begin to slow and our planet begin to heal? We asked friends of National Review Online to grade the president’s first year on the job.

LEE EDWARDS
Unlike Candidate Obama, President Obama is not so much audacious as cautious, not uplifting but enervating in his rhetoric, not non-partisan but partisan in his politics, not unpredictable but all too predictable in his prescriptions: “Got a problem? No problem, we the government have the answer.” All of which accounts for his sagging popularity and the rising tide of public protest evidenced in the town-hall meetings, tea parties, and results of this fall’s elections.

Obama the politician should be able to learn and adjust his governing strategy from these setbacks. But Obama the ideologue -- the progressive in love with the chimera of efficient, effective government -- may not be able to. He is close to imposing a government-led health-care system on the American people that has been a progressive goal for more than a century. He may

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