Posted on 03/29/2013 10:42:50 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Barack Obama is a serious man. Yes, he likes to golf, and yes, he ran a campaign with cutesy Facebook pictures and seemingly inane Flash slideshows like “Life of Julia.” No, he does not seem interested in the mechanics of legislation, nor does he seem adept at negotiation. But the weird condescension his opponents display toward him is ludicrously wrongheaded. They seem eager to believe he is a lightweight, and he is not. Obama is very possibly a world-historical political figure, and until those who oppose him come to grips with this fact, they will get him wrong every time.
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Yes, ain’t it!
He's saying the two extremes -- Obama as a dithering dilettante or Obama as a dedicated Marxist-Leninist revolutionary -- are both wrong and the answer has to lie somewhere in between.
He doesn't go much further than that, so the article may not seem to be of much use, but for my money he's right and provides something for people to think about and discuss.
Without question. The Founders wanted a watchdog, and they are now a lapdog.
Obama is very possibly a world-historical political figure.
Yeah he’s the greats loser and wants everyone else to be one too.
Trip stumble and fall is all he can do.
Obama has found the part of population that Lincoln spoke of i.e. ‘you can fool some of the people all the time .....’ and has realized that ‘some’ amounts to 50%+/- of the population/voters.
Sometimes, Podhoretz proves that he’s ready for the LA tarpits, and this is one occasion.
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