Obama Unmasked

The facade is falling away and Barack Obama is getting revealed for the hard left ideologue he is.

Obama's new resemblance is less to Kennedy or Reagan than to leftist author Thomas Frank, whose 2004 book, "What's the Matter With Kansas?," answered the liberal conundrum: Why do ordinary Americans vote against their own economic interests to support Republicans? Frank explained that "deranged" and "lunatic" Kansans were led away by Republicans from material concerns to social issues. Obama similarly described small-town Americans turning to guns and the Bible in frustration over government's failure to take care of them -- a more genteel version of Frank's thesis. That raises the question, "What's the matter with Obama?"

As Abraham Lincoln once observed: "You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time. But, you can't fool all the people all of the time."