Let’s be clear about this Obama fellow
Glenn Greenwald gives a thorough review of Obama as a centrist. And his conformity to the Village mindset of how every Dem leader has acted for the past quarter century: like a follower.
I’d take it a whole lot further.
There is no leftist political ideology in US politics. It exists only in the imaginations of people who’ve never been exposed to it as anything more refined than the certainty so passionately defended by college sophomores. Liberalism in DC was killed in 1968, a victim of racists and warmongers. So only folks 50 or older have any experience with that bad ol’ bogeyman. And some of them confuse it with hippies, LSD and the Weather Underground.
The Village insists we never experience the fearsome dodo bird long after that ‘raptor’ met its extinction.
All that’s new is that Obama plans to engage in typical Demowishwashy fashion while Black, I helped elect him because he said he’d get us out of Iraq. Nobody else promised even that since last February.
If he accomplishes anything else liberal, I’ll consider that an unexpected bonus. After all, ever since the telecom immunity vote, I’ve made it clear to my readers that Obama’s potential as a progressive has yet to progress beyond wishful thinking.
And while he clearly idolizes Lincoln, the times require an FDR. Typical logic for a centrist, which isn’t even an ideology. It’s a long, slow, tingling ass kiss.
I’d be happy if Obama proves me wrong but I have my own ideology, as a realist.
