It has been more than a day or two, a week in fact, and I cannot say I am convinced of anything. That is because new factors keep raising their heads and derailing my train of thought. The basic question remains unresolved; who is Barack Obama?
Is he a sharp Chicago-trained pol gifted with a silver tongue, a superior mind, and a confidence- inspiring demeanor who has mucked up his first big opportunity to lead through lack of experience? A man who truly seeks to unify the two segments of the country into one, and just, with a misstep, flubbed his chance?
Or is he using this crisis to move the country irrevocably down the road to permanent one party dominance? At the moment I'd have to go with latter, having been forcefully pushed by his decision to allow Speaker Pelosi to write the stimulus bill , and his transfer of control of the Census from the Commerce Dept. to the White House.
Oh yes, after much hoopla about Sen. Gregg, a Republican, heading Commerce, he almost immediately stripped the department of its most important function, and moved the Census into Rahm Emmanuel's hands so that demographics could be studied and districts, perhaps, manipulated to swell the Democrat ranks. This move alone reeks of danger!
I am not certain where I will end up in this...not yet. But that curtain in Oz is going up as we speak, and soon we should know know if the wizard has clay feet, and if so, how toxic the clay might be.
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What we're seeing now is the answer to the question 'how does being a community organizer qualify you to be president.' The Saul Alinsky model of 'rubbing the wounds of discontent' to mobilize groups of voters to stand behind measures and candidates works differently on a national stage than it did in the neighborhoods of Chicago. When you appeal to the pessimism of a ghetto community, you get votes. When you appeal to the pessimism of a nation that leads a world, you get economic disaster and a greatly increased threat of war.
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