Most of the population is so caught up in Obamamania that you can't say anything negative about him without losing the thread of a conversation. Say something negative about Obmamassiah and you're immediately a Bush lover. (Let me say it again here: GWB was a failure of HISTORIC proportions). Below is a quote lifted from a Reason online article that gives an important talking point that may, may, give you a chance to have a complete conversation with someone outside your realm of thinking. Remember: to make an impact politically you must change opinions of others...
"Market fundamentalism" (a catchy insult popularized by armchair philosopher George Soros after he developed the world's most expensive case of winner's remorse) was buried by the modern Republican Party in 1999, when the presidential primary process winnowed the field down to two candidates running explicitly against that concept: John "National Greatness Conservatism" McCain, and George "Compassionate Conservatism" Bush. The 43rd president didn't come into office championing the "amoral exaltation of individual success," but rather a big new federal program to (ostensibly) improve public education in order to provide better opportunities for minorities and the poor. Bush's budgets, as readers here have heard ad nauseum, demonstrated more philosophical affinity to Lyndon Johnson than Ayn Rand. If Republicans have belatedly rediscovered the joys of limited government and capitalism, it's a sure sign they're no longer in power.
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