What's amusing...
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nwhikerWhat amuses me bitterly is to watch the Obama-fans in my circle of acquaintances now dismiss Krugman as delusional.
FDR, Reagan, and Obama.
When you start with the premise of Obama is always right and anyone who criticises him is a right-wing plant, a PUMA, or a whiny liberal who doesn't get "it", or someone too stupid to understand the 12th dimensional chess Obama is playing you end up with this: people who act the same way towards Obama as those moronic right-wingers acted about Idiot Bush.
Obama is, and always was, a cravenly ambitious man with no core principles beyond the glorification of The One, Himself. As long as he thought that Democratic principles would help him towards that goal, he espoused them. He was elected on that act, and he's what we got, I'll support him and lie to pollsters and tell them that I approve of the direction he's taking the country in (even if I think it's just moving more slowly rightward than any direction I'd like to see us moving in). If he's in danger in Washington state in 2012, I'll throw up a bit in my mouth and vote for him. But that doesn't mean I have to be deluded by his glory.
Krugman:
More and more, it’s becoming clear that progressives who had their hearts set on Obama were engaged in a huge act of self-delusion. Once you got past the soaring rhetoric you noticed, if you actually paid attention to what he said, that he largely accepted the conservative storyline, a view of the world, including a mythological history, that bears little resemblance to the facts.
It was clear to some of us from the first time we saw or heard him speak. Which, btw, for me was the 2008 Dem Convention. We were coming back from hiking on Mt Rainier and turned on the radio. We had no idea who this guy speaking was, only that he was supposedly a Democrat. I remember being totally turned off by him, as was dh. It wasn't until I got home and checked on the 'net that I found out it was Obama, the guy from Illinois everyone had been raving about, to whose Senate campaign we'd sent $$. What a letdown, and it's continued to be.
Only now, the stakes are enourmous, and we've got at the top about whom, Krugman says, continued from above, And confronted with a situation utterly at odds with that storyline … he stayed with the myth..
Ugh. We're well and truly fucked.
FDR, Reagan, and Obama.
When you start with the premise of Obama is always right and anyone who criticises him is a right-wing plant, a PUMA, or a whiny liberal who doesn't get "it", or someone too stupid to understand the 12th dimensional chess Obama is playing you end up with this: people who act the same way towards Obama as those moronic right-wingers acted about Idiot Bush.
Obama is, and always was, a cravenly ambitious man with no core principles beyond the glorification of The One, Himself. As long as he thought that Democratic principles would help him towards that goal, he espoused them. He was elected on that act, and he's what we got, I'll support him and lie to pollsters and tell them that I approve of the direction he's taking the country in (even if I think it's just moving more slowly rightward than any direction I'd like to see us moving in). If he's in danger in Washington state in 2012, I'll throw up a bit in my mouth and vote for him. But that doesn't mean I have to be deluded by his glory.
Krugman:
More and more, it’s becoming clear that progressives who had their hearts set on Obama were engaged in a huge act of self-delusion. Once you got past the soaring rhetoric you noticed, if you actually paid attention to what he said, that he largely accepted the conservative storyline, a view of the world, including a mythological history, that bears little resemblance to the facts.
It was clear to some of us from the first time we saw or heard him speak. Which, btw, for me was the 2008 Dem Convention. We were coming back from hiking on Mt Rainier and turned on the radio. We had no idea who this guy speaking was, only that he was supposedly a Democrat. I remember being totally turned off by him, as was dh. It wasn't until I got home and checked on the 'net that I found out it was Obama, the guy from Illinois everyone had been raving about, to whose Senate campaign we'd sent $$. What a letdown, and it's continued to be.
Only now, the stakes are enourmous, and we've got at the top about whom, Krugman says, continued from above, And confronted with a situation utterly at odds with that storyline … he stayed with the myth..
Ugh. We're well and truly fucked.
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