There is a problem, however. It makes a mockery of Obama’s pose as the great transcender, uniter, healer of divisions. This is the man who sprang from nowhere with that thrilling 2004 convention speech declaring that there is “not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there’s the United States of America.”
That was then. Today, we are just sects with quarrels — to be exploited for political advantage. And Obama is just the man to fulfill Al Gore’s famous mistranslation of our national motto: Out of one, many.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/divider-in-chief/2012/05/03/gIQAMPR0zT_story.html
Only a politician could so proudly make a mockery of him or herself.
I know, I know, the GOP is evil so the means of beating them are not as important as the end - they must be defeated in order to prevent domination of the patriarchy, the evangelicals, and the science haters. Well, that's certainly one way to think about it! A remarkably self justifying way.
The part that has always baffled me about our President is that he's always been clear about what he was - he's a die hard socialist-statist. His agenda was devised in the 1930s, long before he was born. The change her referred to isn't so much change in ideas about what a President could or shouldn't do, as it was the actualization of the progressive dream; a relatively old progressive dream in which the state has control and removes uncertainty and misfortune from the lives of the citizenry - in which, presumably, the ability of those in control to coordinate and organize will reduce or eliminate human pain and suffering.
This President is not a wolf in sheep's clothing, he is was he always said he was; that so many could ignore that has always been baffling. He's a politician, he does what politicians do.
That was then. Today, we are just sects with quarrels — to be exploited for political advantage. And Obama is just the man to fulfill Al Gore’s famous mistranslation of our national motto: Out of one, many.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/divider-in-chief/2012/05/03/gIQAMPR0zT_story.html
Only a politician could so proudly make a mockery of him or herself.
I know, I know, the GOP is evil so the means of beating them are not as important as the end - they must be defeated in order to prevent domination of the patriarchy, the evangelicals, and the science haters. Well, that's certainly one way to think about it! A remarkably self justifying way.
The part that has always baffled me about our President is that he's always been clear about what he was - he's a die hard socialist-statist. His agenda was devised in the 1930s, long before he was born. The change her referred to isn't so much change in ideas about what a President could or shouldn't do, as it was the actualization of the progressive dream; a relatively old progressive dream in which the state has control and removes uncertainty and misfortune from the lives of the citizenry - in which, presumably, the ability of those in control to coordinate and organize will reduce or eliminate human pain and suffering.
This President is not a wolf in sheep's clothing, he is was he always said he was; that so many could ignore that has always been baffling. He's a politician, he does what politicians do.
No comments:
Post a Comment