I don't often do this, but this article by Janet Daley in the Telegraph in the UK is worth a read.

At last, we are having the right argument for our time. Virtually everybody who is in touch with political reality now accepts that the old contest - socialism vs capitalism - is over. We all believe, with greater or lesser degrees of enthusiasm, in free-market economics. So the real source of contention that remains is the size and role of the state.

Anyone who thinks that this is a puny arena - that the boundaries of debate have shrunk to a less inspirational, purely managerial scale - is mistaken. The passion with which those on the Left are now defending their new turf should make it clear: this fight will be to the death because the power of government to control social and economic outcomes is seen by them as the last plausible incarnation of their moral world-view...

The tragic inevitability of government intervention is that when you create a permanent agency to deal with a problem it has an inherent tendency to make the problem itself permanent. This is not only for self-serving reasons - to justify its own continued existence - but because it prefers to deal in fixed entities such as poverty, deprivation, or educational inequality, rather than to view the infinite range of human possibilities and personal circumstances as a dynamic, ever-changing spectrum in which individual vagaries matter more than any total result.

Read the whole thing. Columns like this is where you get the information you need to fight the ObamaZombie mentality. Just read - absorb - and lob a few of these facts and ideas to your Obama friends. It's just so much fun watching them chew their lower lips while trying to find some witty and intelligent comeback.