My previous take on Obama has been that we should expect a Carteresque presidency...long on idealism and short on results. Now we are beginning to see more Nixon tendencies -- paranoia and enemies' lists -- without the skilled international diplomacy. How disillusioning it must be for his fervent believers to see their celebrity icon exposed as just another cynical politician.
Good report- and there is this as well, a liberal from the WaPo
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My previous take on Obama has been that we should expect a Carteresque presidency...long on idealism and short on results.
ReplyDeleteNow we are beginning to see more Nixon tendencies -- paranoia and enemies' lists -- without the skilled international diplomacy.
How disillusioning it must be for his fervent believers to see their celebrity icon exposed as just another cynical politician.