tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2364980587788164382.post6535343751855283646..comments2023-07-09T05:59:26.077-04:00Comments on Falstaff: How will the political landscape look tomorrow morning?Falstaffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01543557291381143262noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2364980587788164382.post-82682270772891903552009-09-11T11:25:36.589-04:002009-09-11T11:25:36.589-04:00"Sort of" is right. It's some index ..."Sort of" is right. It's some index of how far liberals still have to go to get back to square one that everybody's having palpitations over his willingness even to use the word. Forget that his defense of liberalism was pathetic -- as if the real meaning of Social Security and Medicare... indeed, the essence of the "American character"... was some combination of a sympathetic heart and civility. <br /><br />In that sense, this is a very personal speech. For Barack Obama, remaining civil trumps everything. He has really been rattled by the crazies, and he really feels the need to appease and calm them down. Indeed, you could almost say that his political mission in life has come to be to save the Republican Party from itself… to reconstitute it with Robert Taft types, to save it from the Joe McCarthy types. <br /><br />We needed FDR. We didn’t need Dwight Eisenhower.Falstaffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01543557291381143262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2364980587788164382.post-73927024763701775482009-09-10T17:58:49.084-04:002009-09-10T17:58:49.084-04:00Well, seems Paul likes the speech, kind of. Why no...Well, seems Paul likes the speech, kind of. Why not? Obama did everything Paul asked him to do, at least sort of. So we should just learn to accept our fate. We have a kinda-sorta liberal president who will deliver kinda-sorta progressive policies. Maybe this is what's supposed to be. I mean, who needs real passion in an era of hip, hype, and hope?july4cathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16801152736319249664noreply@blogger.com