PrintJanuary 30, 2010
From Camelot to Scamalot
For almost half a century, the romantic and noble label of John and Jackie Kennedy's "Camelot" years in the White House has been an integral part of our political lexicon -- and a major asset to the once-liberal, now mostly left-illiberal Democratic National Party. How ironic it is that in the late JFK's own state of Massachusetts, the voters who elected Republican State Senator Scott Brown to the U.S. Senate have laid the predicate for yet another presidential legacy label: the highly ignoble "Scamalot" for the unfolding political lives of Barack Obama and his far-left entourage. Faced with so many false assurances, exaggerated "hopes," and inflated assertions about not only Obama's health care takeover, but also his radical policies on energy, taxes, the national debt, unemployment, the environment, and the ongoing War on Terror, Bay State voters came to believe that the president is simply deceiving them -- to the point that they...(Read Full Article)
