Daily Archives: Wednesday, 20 January 2010

People thought that George Bush was a bumbling idiot. The irony of ironies is that Obama is proving himself not to be much better than Bush in that regard. Bush, so it would seem, lacks the raw intellectual talent. Obama, by contrast, is not bringing his considerable intellectual powers to bear by being fully reflective and self-critical. This makes Obama his own worst enemy. Obama reminds me of expression that is from an era gone-by: “Too smart for one’s own good”. Not in my life-time have I seen a man take the office of President of the United States with as much hope on the part of the citizens of America as Barack Obama did. Likewise, never have I seen a person more oblivious to the very hope that he had inculcated. And it takes a very morally vapid person to be indifferent to the very deep, deep hope on the part of that she or he has inculcated. If Obama is not such a person, I see no evidence that he is not. Continue reading →