The existential risk to the world of Barack Hussein Obama.

For much of America’s history presidents and political leaders have operated within the boundaries of acceptable political opinion and actions. The primary exception to this was the election of Abraham Lincoln which led to a terrible civil war.

Obama and his party have transgressed the boundaries of “acceptable” in several ways.

In terms of legislation, the so-called “Health care” bill was passed over the objection of most of the American people. Its capacity to transform American society in profound ways was inadequately debated and its cost, both financial and personal, is a huge question mark. One thing is certain; estimates of its cost and its effect on personal freedom are greatly understated by its proponents.

In terms of spending, the Obama administration has ramped up deficit spending to levels that appear to be an order of magnitude higher than any previous administration. Government debt is rapidly leading to the kind of unsupportable levels that are bankrupting other advanced countries. The effect of national bankruptcy, perhaps even global bankruptcy, threatens not just the plans but also the very lives of people around the world.

In terms of foreign policy, the Obama administration is literally reversing a century of American policy. Obama is uncomfortable with the outcome of World War 2. He bows to foreign depots, extends the hand of friendship to regimes that are killing Americans, and insults friends like England and Israel. Until his sudden reversal just this week, his administration was actually undermining the leader of Afghanistan during a war in which we are THE major player.

These policies threaten Americans in ways that we have not been threatened since Lincoln’s election. The policies of the Obama administration and its allies in congress represent a real, existential threat to the United States and to the world.

I believe that the Obama team: Obama, Pelosi, Reed, Emanuel, et. al. view America as some vast play-dough figure that can be shaped infinitely into the image that they have in mind. I believe that they see no difference between – for example – Chicago and the United States. That is a tragic error. A grossly dysfunctional Chicago can be maintained and contained in a continental nation that provides the resources to ameliorate its problems and an escape hatch for those who wish to leave.

But America is not Chicago; the United Nations cannot provide the resources and the escape hatch. The dominant military power and economic power in the world cannot be fixed by the Lilliputians of the second and third worlds even as the Europeans and the Japanese are facing financial ruin.

The Obama administration, the beneficiary of affirmative action and elite institutions, accustomed to riding in the front of the bus, luxuriating on Air Force One, appears incapable of seeing the financial and moral crash that it is steering toward. The only hope for rescue of not just this country but the world is for the fall elections to wrest the steering wheel away from the people whose entire world view is politics and who are now in control and bring the American political system back to acceptable boundaries, governing with the consent of the governed .

It’s the Change we are Hoping for.