I have been criticized for being too one sided (negative) in my postings on Obama. I plead guilty. My excuses, Your Honour, are the following. First, the positives are amply taken care of by the media and the acolytes, so there is no need for me to go there. Second, I read articles such as the following.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0409/21207.html
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Professor Klar,
ReplyDeleteIt's refreshing to find a conservative in the academy - you must be lonely sir! I really enjoy reading your posts, and unlike other readers, I think you are dead on with Obama, and if anything your desire to be fair causes to pull a few of your punches. Great link btw, Good reading. You'll probably like this link, showing Obama's manifest unfitness to govern. It's by uber-patriot Phil Berg.
http://bit.ly/Urg8I
best regards,
Shannon
Professor Klar,
ReplyDeleteI did not read the past criticisms of your comments regarding Obama as going to some failure on your part to cover "the positives". Rather, I read them as saying, first, that you are focussing on (relative to more weighty matters) trivialities (Obama's choice of gifts, his displacing of a TV singing contest, his understated level of "rage" towards Afghan misogynist laws, or his overstated level of "rage" towards AIG execs). I also read the criticisms as saying that you make comparisons between him and Bush 43 without (a) actually demonstrating that the comparison is well taken, or (b) subjecting Bush 43 to the same exacting standard as that to which you are subjecting Obama.
I then could not help but notice that every time you are called on this, you change the subject. At first, it was what Bush would say. Then it was what Obama should have said. Then it was about Obama's commitment to women's rights. Now it seems (from the link you posted) that it's about Obama's loss of favour among his fellow travellers. (Some of us, by the way, think that's a good thing.) All this leaping around is reminiscent of the whirling dervishes I once saw in Konya (word to the wise: if in Konya, don't get a hotel anywhere near a minaret unless you appreciate 5 am "wake-up calls"). It must be very frustrating to your commentators. Fortunately, I'm a "long-time listener, first-time caller". No frustration yet.