The United States was founded on the principle of equal opportunity. Obama has promised to change "the greatest nation in the history of the world." He is going to create a society that strives to provide equal outcomes rather than equal opportunity. That has been tried in other countries such as China, India, and Cuba, and the result has been that most of the people wind up equally bad off. (China and India have subsequently recognized the futility of the quest for equality, and have improved the lot of their people.) Obama is either ignorant of history, or is arrogant enough to believe that he can succeed where all who tried before him failed.