Judith Angelo on Obama
My dear friends "out there on the left" seem to expect some sort of instant gratification. We did not elect a saviour, dear ones, we elected a far better option than what we'd have otherwise. His global warming positions are far more important than these geo-political games.
From Judith Angelo on Obama : (from Facebook)
"No one got to him. he has not changed -- this is the guy we elected to a position that is defined by the theater of "I" statements in a morbidly enmeshed polical-economic labyrinth : a strategic realist, a compromiser -- not a progressive.
The speech was revelatory not of who he is - true progressives told us all what to expect of this president all during the campaign -but how he thinks. and he also said that a holy war can never be a just war. he also left all references to abuse & suffering country-neutral, universal: he knows part of the 3rd world is in the USA.
I am not defending him- i never expected him to be able to change much of what we do as a nation, or to even make change the way i want him to- i expected intelligence & some transparency. What I am grateful for is THAT he thinks, that he feels morally accountable, & that he is preaching moral accountability as the missing link to true agency and integrity as an actor in the shrinking world. & i don't think he's a hypocrite to share how he makes peace with his conscience and his job. i think he is modeling the need for everyone to do so, and suggesting that developing a real conscience is different than passing judgements based on absolutes.
I hate a lot of what he's agreed to, i disagree with much of his strategy & decisions and it makes me nuts that he can't use metaphor and make every news conference a sharp commercial for the changes he wants to make.
But he is facing crises bred in the hearts of vain & visionless, careless & co-opted men who did not know or care that they were. & he is doing triage in the madhouse they set on fire.Cuz that's what we hired him to do."
