THE REAL REASON - AT 7:46 A.M. ET:  The New York Post, in a fine editorial, examines the wild charges coming from the left, directed at Americans who have the nerve to criticize The One, and finds them absurd.  The Post correctly explains the real reasons why Americans are so angry:

It's been a hilarious August, watching media supporters of President Obama's health care package puzzle over the obscure motivations of the noncompliant Americans rallying against it.

"Racial anxiety," guessed New York Times columnist Paul Krugman.

"Nihilism," theorized Time's Joe Klein.

"The crazy tree blooms in every moment of liberal ascendancy," historian Rick Perlstein proclaimed in the Washington Post.

While the commentariat's condescension is almost comical, the whole evil-or-stupid explanation misses the elephant in Obama's room: Americans of all stripes, it turns out, aren't very keen about the government barging into their lives.

Yeah, and they aren't very keen about a president who runs as a moderate and governs from the increasingly far left.  And they may be less than confident in an administration, and its allies in Congress, who can't even explain the contents of the health "reform" they're jamming down our throats.

This isn't about liberal or conservative, Democrat or Republican. A majority oppose Obama's policies because they fly in the face of this country's bedrock values of personal liberty and limited government. Robbing Peter to pay Goldman Sachs does violence to that fundamentally American ethos.

And increasingly, Obama administration policy does violence to European values, as well. The continent has for the last two decades been systematically disengaging national governments from domestic industries. Top officials from Sweden, of all places, complained about Washington's auto bailout, tersely announcing that "The Swedish state is not prepared to own car factories."

COMMENT:  Incredible, isn't it?  Even some in Sweden - the pinnacle of Superior Nationhood in the view of the chattering classes - are appalled at what's happening here.  Many in Europe have realized their economic mistakes in recent years, only to see those same mistakes made, with enthusiasm, by the new Obamans. 

But Americans, always faster to wake up than the welfare stated Europeans, are waking up quickly.

August 24, 2009