While the world waxes euphoric over the inauguration of Barack Obama (Peggy Noonan has gone nearly drunk on Hopenchange), one British writer will have none of it. Gerald Warner writes (emphases mine) of Obama (HT: Hot Air):
I don't think it could be better said.
On the economic crisis Warner says:
It is questionable whether the present political system can survive the coming crisis. Whatever the solution, teenage swooning sentimentality over a celebrity cult has no part in it. The most powerful nation on earth is confronting its worst economic crisis under the leadership of its most extremely liberal politician, who has virtually no experience of federal politics. That is not an opportunity but a catastrophe.
These are frank, even ungracious, words: they have the one merit that, unlike almost everything else written today about Obama, they will not require to be eaten in the future.
Me: Cheers for Gerald Warner. I don't know of anyone writing like this in the American press, do you? Chris Matthews, on reading Warner, will gag... Warner, no doubt, does the same on watching MSNBC's star...