The Obama Temptation

I posted this to a message board on October 26, 2008:

Mark Levin wrote an article which I thought was interesting on why people are fascinated by Obama:

I honestly never thought we'd see such a thing in our country - not yet anyway - but I sense what's occurring in this election is a recklessness and abandonment of rationality that has preceded the voluntary surrender of liberty and security in other places.

I just went to Levin's website and it said: No affiliates were found within 100 miles!

Someone wrote:

The first time I was polled, one of the questions was "do you think the country is going in the wrong direction?" I said "yes" because, any country that would elect the Obamessiah is, by definition, going in the wrong direction.

I responded with:

I agree with you that we are on the wrong track and we don't need more of the same from the left. I am very hopeful that McCain/Palin can bring positive change.

Another person said:

It's curious that during the McCarthy years, there were stories of kids reporting their parents as communists, the acting community was fleeing to Europe, Americans were so paranoid that any whisper of 'red' was suspect. How did the perception of communism/socialism change so quickly?

 I responded with:

I agree with you, those people would be appalled at what America has become. Consider that Wilson and FDR both had close allies who were anti-American and marxist. My only hope is that we have managed to stay mostly intact even after those, so if Obama pursues the same course, it is possible there will be a light at the end. Also weren't there radical teachers in the 1920s? I've heard that the ideas of the founding fathers disappeared for a while, but then suddently there was a resurgence in learning more about them.