By Christopher Cook
Americans and Obama disagree not just some of the time, not just half of the time, but—apparently—all of the time.
Earlier today, I was exhorted to take the Barack Obama Test. I was told that this test has enjoyed tremendous traffic, that it has gotten great response (as well as some hate response), and that it has changed many minds.
Excited to know these details, I went to take the test myself. I expected to find a series of question that one answers, followed by an effective statement regarding the degree to which Barack Obama dis/agrees with one's beliefs and positions.
The test and its results were all that, and not surprisingly, Obama and I are in accord exactly 0% of the time. That's right, the potential next president of the United States and I disagree on 100% of the issues listed in this test, from taxes to energy, foreign policy to justice, social issues to the 2nd Amendment.
This is an effective tool on its own; when an independent voter finds out that s/he and Obama disagree 60, 70, 80, even 90% of the time, it's going to give that voter pause.
But that is not the true brilliance of this test!
Below the place where it tells us the degree to which we do or do not agree with Obama is something I did not expect, something far more striking.
It lists all of the questions, this time showing Barack Obama's position in comparison to the preferences of the American people as a whole. Various different polls are used to show where the American people stand on each of these issues, and that is shown in comparison to where Barack Obama stands. And get this . . .
Out of the 48 questions, a majority or plurality of Americans disagree with Barack Obama on all 48!
In one spot—on Obama's health care plan—if you separate out just the 30% of Americans who pay no taxes at all, just that cohort agrees with Obama . . . and even then, only by 1%, well inside the margin of error.
The profundity of this situation can hardly be overstated.
Americans are in such a foul mood—exactly where the left's eight-year-long permatantrum™ was designed to put them—that they are willing to elect a leader with whom they DISAGREE 100% of the time. They are convinced that "change" is what is needed, and since Barack Obama represents some form of change, many of them need look no further.
Maybe we need some change here and there. But picking someone with whom we, as a people in aggregate, disagree 100% of the time? That, it seems to me, occupies the misty twilight regions somewhere between ignorance and madness.
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