Barry the Kid Says "Don't Eat and Drive So Much"

When we're poor and starving the world will like us again.

Child Messiah Barry the Kid gave a rather interesting speech in Oregon last weekend to the Birkenstock clad masses of academics, students and the ever popular greying ponytail demographic. The speech was filled with the usual toxic socialist claptrap we have come to expect from the latest out of touch liberal that the Democrat party has offered up for our amusement. But it is worth noting that in this performance Barry the Kid brought back John Kerry's "Global Test":

"We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK," Obama said.

"That's not leadership. That's not going to happen," he added.

This is the leftist view of how a society should be organized; with the philosopher kings deciding for all the "little people". But as Ayn Rand said, "There are no little people in America".

This nation is exceptional because it was the first in history to be founded on the idea that people could, and should, be free to run their own lives with only a minimal government to attend to those things that had to be done by the state. The Constitution and the Bill of Rights lay out a system in which we are to have maximum freedom and liberty. A system that recognizes that people are best left to govern their own lives because that is their natural right and because it works better than any top down authority.

But as we know from our own history and the history of the rest of the world, our system doesn't just work here. It has been transplanted to many other places where, to the degree that the people consistently adopt it, it results in similar progress for them as well. Greater prosperity and progress have been the outcome when other nations have moved in the direction of democratic capitalism.

But all of this is lost on the left because they don't learn from history, even when they bother to study it. They are mesmerized by their utopian dream. A dream of power and state omnipotence unfettered by constitutional limits on their reach into all of our lives. And note that Barry the Kid only cares for the opinions of those who hate us, not those who have joined us in the comradeship of freedom. The only voices that he hears and respects are the voices of systemic failure. The voices of dictators and tyrants who gather all power and authority to themselves. Like John Kerry, he is one of those who always blame America first. He wants to listen to our enemies, but not our friends. Is Barry the Kid the best that we can expect from the Democrat party? It would seem so.

The more Barry the Kid opens his mouth the more he reveals just how juvenile and unprepared he is for the job he is seeking. This guy is really dangerous because he is so stupid. Hillary looks like a genius next to this guy and that's saying a lot. Check out the audio from Hugh Hewitt here.