Monday, March 23, 2009

How Did Obama Wreck Everything in Just Ten Weeks When Everything Was Going Fine?

The question on every serious person's lips.

2 comments:

  1. Anonymous10:59 AM

    Obama Told Us to Speak Out, but Is He Listening?
    William Greider, Washington Post
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/19/AR2009031902511_pf.html

    Has a 'Katrina Moment' Arrived?
    Frank Rich, New York Times
    http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/22/opinion/22rich.html

    The Big Takeover
    Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone
    http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/26793903/the_big_takeover/print

    We're in This Together
    Chuck Collins, On the Commons
    http://www.onthecommons.org/content.php?id=2383

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  2. The headline was ironic.

    Obama hasn't wrecked everything, and nothing was fine.

    And it's easier to say what's wrong than what's next.

    That isn't to deny the necessity of saying what's wrong, but it is to point out that facilitating pragmatically possible progressive outcomes in the midst of what's wrong is much harder than saying what's wrong.

    People who blunt the only tools they have on hand to do what they want aren't behaving intelligently. Simple as that.

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