On 12/3/2010 10:45 AM, Jim Devine wrote: > I have some friends who argue that Obama is a one-term president and > thus can (and _should_) try to shake things up, reform the system, > build the power of the DP for the future, etc., because he's really > got nothing to lose politically. It's clear that BHO didn't get that > message. In some ways he seems like a disappointed rationalist, who > first tried to convince the politicians with reason and then decided > that all he could do was subordinate reason to the power of the > politicians.
I think it is more useful to see him as just another Evan Bayh or Harold Ford Jr. I think the fact that he was friends with Bill Ayers and Rashid Khalidi fooled a lot of people. I will be writing a review of books on Obama by Hodge, Ali and Street when I get a chance but none of them really get into the political/psychological mindset of this truly creepy individual. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
