Fellow travelers

The phrase ‘fellow traveler’ takes on a two-fold meaning now that Obama’s is running for President. First, it defines the result of his intentions to level the playing field even further than it already extends, i.e. more and better giveaways. A liberal mayor, Barrack supporter, brags about his federally funded bike path and his hope for further funding to widen a city highway. He represents what is wrong with hoping that fellow tax-paying Americans, not citizens of his city, fund improvements. Another example of subsidized living and socialist thinking is a single mother of 4 children who states that she is unemployed and going to school full time but could still use a windfall of cash. Her inexplicable condition will not be corrected by a call for family living or responsible employment by Obama. Instead, possibilities for her version of the pursuit of happiness in America will be expanded by further giveaways. Unlike on the road to Canterbury, where travelers were diverse individuals, citizens traveling with Obama will be forced into greater equality so as to share the burdens of life.
Second, is the meaning of Barack’s recent gaff that his wife Michele is just a "FELLOW TRAVELER." A phrase right out of Russian communism can’t be dismissed as simply mis-speak. Michele is not a regular folk; Michele replicates Barack’s socialist view of the world. 200 yrs ago, Wm. Hazlitt said that the "soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases." The journey that Obama has planned for America, if elected President, will not guarantee - or even embody - liberty. As forced, fellow travelers, Americans will find their liberties stripped away layer by layer, beginning with, for example, his campaign pledge to impose a windfall profits tax upon oil companies to pay for an incentive check of $1000 to all Americans. You can bet that wealthy Americans won’t benefit from a windfall. Of course, the socialist Devil is in the details which involve theft from Corporations in which Americans have invested their monies and handouts to those who have acted responsibly. Travelon Obama’s path to America’s future will be mandatory and Americans hoping to accumulate wealth, i.e. savings, investments or capital, will be punished.
Do we dare hope for these changes?