But, with considerably more eloquence, he has stated something I have been trying to say.
"That Obama has adopted a fighter's stance must hearten his partisans... Nor can one argue with a straight face that conservatives have not earned a bloody nose after months of town hall hooliganism, tea party idiocy, and a dumber-than-a-bag-of-lugnuts "controversy" over Obama's place of birth. And yes, Dunn is right about Fox: Glenn Beck is hardly the second coming of Edward R. Murrow.
All that said, one wonders if a White House that focuses excessively on answering its critics is not a White House that has allowed those critics to get into its head."
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"Small wonder thinking Americans ... fear the nation's well-being is being forgotten in the ongoing melee. So if they are smart, the Obamans will resist the understandable temptation to go too far down this road. If they are good, they will recall and redeem the expectations that brought them to power."
The full column is HERE and is worth the read.
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Their one commonality: Politicians from both sides seem to rank party above country and themselves above both.
Small wonder thinking Americans (about a dozen of whom still exist) fear the nation's well-being is being forgotten in the ongoing melee. So if they are smart, the Obamans will resist the understandable temptation to go too far down this road. If they are good, they will recall and redeem the expectations that brought them to power.
If they are neither, will the last statesman please turn out the lights in the Capitol dome?
we no longer have a government of, by and for the people.
Those on the right wing who wait with bated breath for the other shoe to drop- ooh that darn foreign born socio-fascist is going to send the FBI to arrest Beck and take him to a FEMA re-education camp- sorry it ain't going to happen. That's part of the reason that it's so dumb- words are never going to change Fox and because of his adherence to the rule of law, words are all that Obama has.
There are after all a lot more deer hunters than bear hunters, and more bear hunters than lion hunters. Of course there are more deer than lions too, but still, hunters don't normally try for prey that can, and will, eat the hunter.
So far Obama hasn't shown any fight, just more empty words.