The Pseudo-State of the Pretend Union

[Donnachaidh]

http://smirkingchimp.com/thread/david-michael-green/34016/the-pseudo-state-of-the-pretend-union

Barack Obama was supposed to be a transformational president. Remember that?

He certainly marketed himself as such. He certainly - like an FDR or a Lincoln - was handed a context of crisis which simultaneously demanded of him and permitted him to be transformational as the leader of the country at this fraught historical moment.

Watching him deliver his state of the union address this week revealed anything but that, however. This is a shrunken president, playing small-ball at a moment of peril. Watching Obama talk before a global audience, I could not help but think of the weakness and irrelevance of this human platitude production machine, so out of touch with the threats and concerns of our time.

Is it possible to imagine that people will be still talking about this speech twenty years from now? Were they even talking about it twenty minutes after he gave it?

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[jaxx]

1. And the author is still talking about it a week later?

Doesn't say much for his rant does it.