Thursday, February 26, 2009

Mean Street: Mr. Obama, Please Return to Planet Earth

(WSJ--Deal Journal Blog) Has the President lost his mind? Listening to last night’s speech, it sure seemed that way.

It’s taken him five months and three tries to simply come up with a Commerce Secretary.


But somehow over the next couple of years, he will reinvent how we do almost everything. How we bank and borrow. How we educate our children. How we cure cancer. How we use energy.

Even how we build cars.

Forget the ideological objections to Mr. Obama’s ambitions. How about the practical difficulties? How will Mr. Obama ever get all those things done?

The answer is he won’t and shouldn’t even try. If Obama really wants a second term, he should devote his entire first term to making the economy strong again. And that’s it.

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