I like this, despite its
admittedly dubious source:
Republican lawmakers in Washington and around the country
have been focused on blocking Mr. Obama’s agenda and denigrating him personally
since the day he took office in 2009. But even against that backdrop, and even
by the dismal standards of political discourse today, the tone of the current
attacks is disturbing. So is their evident intent — to undermine not just Mr.
Obama’s policies, but his very legitimacy as president.
I like it even though it comes from that far-left, neo-Maoist
qua Islamist rag aka the NY Times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/12/opinion/sunday/a-new-phase-in-ahpd
anti-obama-attacks.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=c-column-top-span-region®ion=c-column-top-span-region&WT.nav=c-column-top-span-region
As for Obama, he's done some good things, very good things,
things that will be hard to undo, and that will tilt or nudge our fractious and
almost infinitely conflicted republic a little more toward the light.
I'm thinking of the Affordable Care Act, the seed of a sane
health care system and increasingly hard to annul or reverse; gay rights/gay
marriage, as in enough already with debating about such basics of civil rights;
the focus on police racism and brutality, where I believe presidential
attention (together with public outcry and smart phone technology has helped
generate a new climate of opinion); and, just recently, the opening to Cuba
(should have happened long ago of course but then again it didn't).
Then there is foreign policy, esp. re the Middle East.
By overthrowing Saddam Hussein, Obama's soulless and brain
dead predecessor (in Yiddish GW might be justly and quite precisely termed "a
shtick fleish mit eigan", a piece of flesh with eyes) destroyed whatever sorry
but steady equilibrium had obtained in the region. The result is not that
freedom blossoms through Muslim lands, as GW's no less compromised advisors promise,
but that the Sunni-Shiite split assumes earthquake proportions, tearing most
every society apart.
Other than liberally employing drones and bombs, how is
Obama's foreign policy addressing the situation? Hard to say. I have a feeling
he doesn't know. But the thing is Obama has demonstrated talent for learning on
the job. His third term should be his best, his fourth even better.
I'm kidding. FDR blew it for the rest of us.
So Netanyahu, that militaristic Israeli bully, gets four
terms, and Obama, with a sane and genuine feel for history, only two?
Deal with it.
Looks like the Clintons, rather than Obama, will be getting a 3rd and/or 4th term in the oval office to be the "Co-Commanders-in-Chief" of the u.s. power elite's endless electronic drone war abroad between 2017 and 2025..
ReplyDeleteBetter Clinton than Bush.
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