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"I find your lack of faith . . . totally understandable."
Marc Cooper, LA WeeklyThe author is a typical Lefty loon, but amazingly clear-eyed about a few things. Hope, says the dictionary, is about our desires. Faith, on the other hand, is about confidence. I've got tons of the former. And damn near none of the latter. So if Obama offers hope, I'll take what I can get. When Obama is sworn into office, it will officially mark much more than just the election of America's first black president (a minor miracle in itself). More than one more peaceful transition of power between the parties (something we take all too much for granted). And much more than what is shaping up to be an electoral landslide (a much-deserved comeuppance). Obama's hand on the Bible will jump-start an entire new historical epoch, one that is already under way. We just don't know what it is, or what we will call it, much less what it will bring. That's where I start to run a little short on faith. . .We'll skip the long, gratuitous Reagan- and Palin-bashing orgy and get to the fun part. When the New Deal era collapsed, the Reaganites were fully loaded and ready to boldly step in. But who's ready this time to fill the void? Did I miss something, or have Nancy Pelosi, Steny Hoyer, Hillary Clinton and Harry Reid quietly, patiently and methodically been building a movement over the last 20 years that is ready -- from Day One, as has become the cliché -- to reinvent and resurrect American politics on the ashes of the failed conservative movement? Let's face it, the Democrats performed shamefully at the onset of the Bush administration, its congressional leadership more or less meekly folding itself into the president's war cabinet. The 2004 Kerry campaign was a political shambles. And as late as 2006, the Democrats won back Congress almost exclusively because they were not the Republicans. That victory had sweet little to do with any proactive moves by the Dems. Does anyone seriously think the Democratic establishment is really prepared to govern effectively, as the global economic crisis deepens (as it surely will)? . . . Posted by: Mike 2008-11-01 |
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