OBAMA: Politics Fail Us
As predicted, I've started to see a lot of negative press out there about President Obama. The honeymoon wears off, always. So not only do we get the constant barrage from FOX "News", but there's also quite a bit of biting chatter from the left. He's squandering this opportunity, they claim. He's mismanaging the change, they infer. He's allowing torture to continue. He's perpetuating Bush policies. Etc. and so on.
I'm not going to defend him.
Because I don't really know if it's defensible. But what I would caution is the tendency to equate crticism with knowing the right answer. Just because you can see a good example of how it should NOT be done, doesn't mean you know how it should be done.
Politics has become more about what flaws your willing to accept. And I'd prefer Obamas flaws and failures to Bush's any day of the week. I think Obama's flaws and failings are probably better than McCain's would have been. And I'm so reliveved that we don't have to sit around the campfire and converse about Sarah Palin and her nutball family. Small mercies.
As an American, I'm not sure we can say that we have leaders per se. We have market forces, and lobbyists, and PR firms, and representatives who are bought and paid for. But we do not have leaders. We are a country that is leaderless. We're flaiting along. I wonder where wi'll end up.

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