A good article at CityJournal that is worth a look as we begin a much needed task. Putting Obama under the light of truth.
Aging baby boomers see in Barack Obama’s down-the-line liberal voting record the promise of a left-wing revival. The college students and twentysomethings of the Millennial Generation see in him a way of pushing the quarrelsome, narcissistic baby boomers off the stage. Someone is bound to be disappointed by this extraordinary performance artist. But what both the boomers and the Millennials share is a desire to be part of what Ralph Waldo Emerson, writing in the 1840s, called “the politics of hope.” Emerson wrote during a time of numerous experiments in utopian living. Obama—whose candidacy rests upon a standard utopian dichotomy between the earthly evils of poverty, injustice, war, and partisanship, and the promise of the world to come if we allow him to rescue us—appeals to the same Elysian strain in American and Western political life, largely in remission since 1980, when the 1960s truly ended.
the politics of hope…Indeed and he is milking it for all its worth!..Thanks so much for stoppin by my humble abode..pls come more often eh!!:)
Over here, I don’t see Obama inspiring people with “hope”, I think most people think he’d be the best president because he hasn’t blotted his copy book like John McCain or Hillary Clinton. He could be caught in field with a sheep and it still wouldn’t matter because he is not McCain or Clinton but Europeans preferred Kerry to Bush during the last election.
Steph (and any other Europeans that follow)
That’s funny ! It’s also probably not far from the truth. I know our Right and Left are a bit different but McCain is McCain and Obama is Obama. Do you think in light of Sarkozy,Medvedev,and what ever happens in Italy either of these guys play better than another ? Sorry but I have like three consistent “Euro contacts”
I don’t know about Medvedev but Sarkozy and Berlusconi (if he gets elected) would defintely prefer McCain. They’re both naturally allies of the Republicans and there is the race issue.