Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D.

Here, courtesy of my friend Jeff, is Victor Davis Hanson's latest column. The pushback that President Obama is experiencing shows that Americans are a conservative people. They are not averse to change, but they don't want abrupt or radical change. They elected Barack Obama to reform (i.e., tinker with) certain dysfunctional institutions (such as health care); they did not elect him to revolutionize society. Not to blow my own horn, but many of us saw what was happening during the runup to the election. Remember the warnings about Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright? A slick-talking, well educated man with little real-world experience and almost no political experience persuaded a majority of voters that he was a moderate bent on reform. We now know that he is a radical bent on revolution. For the sake of this country, let's hope the pushback translates into a new president in 2012.