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Like a Druid during the equinox, Senator Obama, like all Democratic Presidential contenders before him, has made the pilgrimage to drink from The Holy Grail of the New Deal: Social Security.

Perhaps no other issue reveals Obama as nothing more than a pigmented, Great Society Democrat who plays a decent game of basketball.  Once again, "hope and change" are nothing but Obama's "opiate for the masses," when what is really needed is true reform.  Does he really believe his own press clipings when he looks into the eyes of the throngs of young people at his events and tells them Social Security will be there when they retire?  Even scarier, do they believe it themselves?

Obama decries the politics of fear at every campaign stop, yet has no hesitation in scaring the hell out of senior citizens by promising them meals of dogfood if any type of privatization reform is examined.  This is the true politics of fear.  And it's irresponsible.

Why is it Democrats have no faith in the people they supposedly represent?  Is it so hard to believe that a single mom who cleans hotel rooms all her life can not accumulate a modicum of wealth in a country as rich as America.  It can be done.  It can be done if candidates like Obama stop patronizing his own electorate and start educating them in the rudiments of personal finance and retirment accounts.  Is that so impossibe to imagine.  The Government has no problem throwing people of lesser means into the rat maze of the welfare system, yet doesn't believe they are capable of understanding the bond market and compounded interest rates.  I'll bet if you threw some of Obama's Harvard egg head friends into D.S.S. line, they would have some navigational problems of their own.

Where's the guts?  Where's the leadership?  I keep hearing all the cries of social justice, but I never see the effort by the government to harness the industrial might of this country.  It's always adversarial, always us versus them, just the way circus tent preachers like Obama want it. Other countries don't act this way.  In places like Japan and Brazil,  industry and government know they need each other to survive in this global society.  They keep asking: How do we do it? How do we make it happen? What do you need to make it work?  These are the places that have adopted hope and change.

In an Obama administration, it will all be hot air.