I haven’t made a political post in a long, long time.<\/p>\n
I’d make one now, except just thinking about it depresses me. I was not happy about the results of the midterm, needless to say… and I am even less happy, if possible, about this “compromise” that Obama has made with the GOP on taxes. From where I sit, it smells more like capitulation than compromise. Give a lot, get almost nothing.<\/p>\n
Obama is the most intelligent president we’ve had since Jimmy Carter… and, sad to say, he is looking more and more like Jimmy every day. A good man, but not a good leader. At least not so far. He doesn’t seem to have the stomach for a fight. We need another FDR, another JFK, another LBJ. NOT Jimmy II. (And, yes, I know, Obama has accomplished some important stuff. But so did Jimmy. Camp David accords, remember?)<\/p>\n
Yeats was writing about his own time in “The Second Coming,” I know, but sometimes I think he was prescient:<\/p>\n
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity. <\/p>\n
And could that rough beast whose hour has come round at least be… Sarah Palin?<\/p>\n
No, please. Tell me that’s just a bad dream. Somebody wake me up. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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