If you want to read a brilliant evaluation of President Obama and our current political scene, you can't do better than read VDH's analysis.
We have seen irony before, when the moralist
Jimmy Carter chastised us with sermons about our paranoid, inordinate
fear of Communism and our amoral unconcern with human rights, even as
the dividends of his policies were the Soviets in Afghanistan and the
Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran — and even greater global misery than before.
For the last 24 months a youthful Barack Obama has daily offered unspecified “hope and change” idealism — all set against the supposed cynical wrongdoing of the tired Bush administration. In the unhinged manner in which his supporters turned a center-right president like George Bush into some sort of sinister reactionary, so too they deified a rookie senator as the long-awaited liberal messiah.
How could irony not follow from all that? (Keep reading . . . You won't be disappointed)
For the last 24 months a youthful Barack Obama has daily offered unspecified “hope and change” idealism — all set against the supposed cynical wrongdoing of the tired Bush administration. In the unhinged manner in which his supporters turned a center-right president like George Bush into some sort of sinister reactionary, so too they deified a rookie senator as the long-awaited liberal messiah.
How could irony not follow from all that? (Keep reading . . . You won't be disappointed)