Is President Obama’s honeymoon over? This question began circulating the media circuit just a day after Obama’s inauguration.
In an essay titled “The Danger of Obama,” John Whitehead, founder and president of The Rutherford Institute here in Charlottesville, makes the case that the end of a bad presidency does not mean the end of bad policy making.
He says that even if Obama has already kept his word on a few campaign promises, the problems that are facing the nation are “insurmountable”: an esclating national debt, a national ID card for every citizen, to name just a few.
“It’s tempting to buy into the idea that Barack Obama, with a stroke of his pen, could make it all go away. But that’s not going to happen. The grim reality is that not every bad policy put in place by George W. Bush and his predecessors will be—or can be—undone by Obama,” he writes.
Are the nation’s problems really insurmountable?
John Whitehead is a constitutional attorney, and author.