Mr. Obama was elected to be NOT BUSH, and not who he is

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Therefore to even be, as he puts it, 'a good one term president', Mr. Obama will have to be who he is not, with a vengeance, and deny all that is in him.

We have all seen the ramping curves of disapproval and cascading approvals.

Maybe Obama et al were thinking they were winking and nodding like crazy at the American people who secretly departing from all those older Reaganite freaks, hungered for a brave new schema of social and economic justice.

Maybe they thought that the echo chamber of Soros-Moveon-Center for American Progress-Tides-The Nation-MSNBC actually has meaning outside in the world.

Maybe they thought that all the quite real international disdain for Mr. Bush meant that when they pulled up at the world saloon and swung those doors, the silence at the bar would mean that the new sheriff could kumbaya his way to a brave new consensus on how the world was going to work. Described by them. Assented to by general acclaim.

But their america-view was a delusion. Their world view a fantasy. Their experience a chimera.

And now their confusion, their comical and naive belief if they frame their message so we can understand it better that all will then be well, is almost endearing when compared to the cynical hardheads who wrote in 6 pages a cynical system which requires dependable human weakness to check human excess.

But I must reserve for his supporters on the left the Harry Turtledove Award for 'otherworldly alternate history dialectically monstrous stupidity'

Huffpo, brings us, the truly incredible, embarassing Rabbi Michael Lerner who faults Obama for GOING TO THE RIGHT INSTEAD OF LEFT (maybe he has never spoken with Mark Lloyd):

Your success depends on helping people believe that they can count on each other, that they are not alone in a ruthless world in which people are out for themselves, and there is a possibility of building a society based on kindness, generosity, and caring for each other. Unless your programs actually allow people to feel in their own lives that they are part of build a new society based on love and generosity of spirit, they will soon fall back into the older paranoid view-that we are all competing with each other and have to look our first for number one. And that will likely them right back into the hands of the most conservative forces in this society. It's that simple, President Obama: if your policies do not give people a personal experience of caring and generosity, people will quickly succumb to the fearmongers who compete in the media over who can make people most afraid, most cynical, and most angry.

Ah yes, the new Horace Greeley's ...go left young man.

And you will find there in chronological order, failure of spirit, malaise, disgust, resolve and finally absolutist enforcement of state theft of individual property, and finally liberties for a 'new society based on love and generosity of spirit'.

But you will be granted the absolution of sincerity

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