Obama's Compassionate Liberalism

Sen. Obama has a long history of using the phrase "I am my brother's keeper."  He says that that principle has helped make America work - and it has, but it's not because the government was ever anyone's keeper. In using this phrase he's courting evangelicals and trying to put a new face on liberalism. But let's not forget what it really is: justification for more government programs and income redistribution a la It Takes A Village.

Obama seems to be confusing the role of private charitable work with the role of the federal government. He's also suggesting that I have the obligation to pay for the health care of someone 1000 miles away I don't even know. While personally he and others certainly have the right to live by that philosophy, we don't need the federal government being anyone's "keeper." In other words, I don't want Obama taking more of my money to give it to whomever he decides. That's my decision.

• 7-08-08 Obama at LULAC
  
• 4-13-08 Obama at Compassion Forum
• 3-18-08 Obama's Race Speech "Let us be our brother's keeper, Scripture tells us. Let us be our sister's keeper. Let us find that common stake we all have in one another, and let our politics reflect that spirit as well."
• 7-27-04 Democratic National Convention