Morning In America

It is a new dawn, is it not? Or at least so said Tony Blair on the 2nd of May 1997 as the sun rose on a Labour party that swept to an historic landslide victory against the Conservatives who had been in office for almost two decades.

During those early months Labour and Blair rode on the crest of a wave of optimism and goodwill from many cheering crowds of Union Jack waving British people. However, this initial euphoria was short-lived and the rest is history.

In ten years Blair presided over two unnecessary and futile wars in the Middle East, escalating (though often ignored) economic problems, the steady decline in our power of self-government and a rapid rise in political correctness among many, many other unpleasant facets stemming from his Labour administration.

And so now to America where Democrat, Barack Obama has convincingly won the US 2008 Presidential Race against John McCain – all to cheering crowds of star-spangled waving US citizens, much glee in the liberal-left media and on the promise of ‘change’, ‘hope’ and ‘optimism’. Does that sound familiar to you?

Before I continue, one thing that should first be noted is despite the election of Barack Obama, the democratic process in the United States must be applauded. While the US system is by no means perfect we must consider that in many respects the United States’ political system is far more democratic than our own and really does put us and many other nations to shame.

Those people that did not vote for the ‘right’ candidate will not be lined up at dawn against a wall and shot. Nor will they be asked by a group of unelected bureaucrats and politicians in Brussels to vote again and again until they get the ‘correct’ result. Nor indeed will US citizens be subjected to the laws and rules of unaccountable institutions they know nothing about.

The people of the United States of America elect their political representatives at all levels, and those representatives are accountable and responsible to those that elected them. Compare this with Britain and its one-sided relationship with the European Union and you begin to see the gaping divide between our nation (or rather EU member state) and the United States.

Barack Obama will be accountable to US citizens and if after four years they decide that they have had enough of him then they can remove him from power and replace him with someone else. Can the same be said of our real Government in Brussels in the UK? Of course not.

Returning again to the soon to be President Obama – I think that as with Tony Blair, his gloss will soon wear thin. Once he has to make some concrete decisions rather than hide behind a veil of secrecy and meaningless slogans then ordinary American attitudes towards him will soon change.

Obama is not the One or the Messiah – just a left-wing media product with nothing good to say at all. Time and history will tell, but as Enoch Powell famously said:

All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.

And let’s be honest – on that account I think Enoch Powell was entirely right. Soon the screaming crowds will disperse and all that will be left of Obama is a shell - broken and empty.

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