Brother, You Ain’t My Keeper
Barack Obama has tried to seize the moral high ground in the health-care debate, declaring in a conference call with religious leaders that government-provided health care is required by “a core ethical and moral obligation: that is that we look out for one another, that I am my brother’s keeper, I am my sister’s keeper.”
Well, I have news for the president: Brother, you ain’t my keeper.
……….This is the real moral essence of the often-noted condescension of the left. Their attitude is: you, the average citizen, are helpless and lost, unable to care for yourselves or make your own decisions. You need a keeper—a government official who is presumably wiser and more provident, who will put you in a kind of protective custody and provide for your needs.
Barack Obama wants to be our brother, all right. He wants to be our Big Brother.