Monday, April 14, 2008

Jimmah II

Politics as therapy; Americans as bitter, failed people.  That's the senator's story and he's sticking with it.  It is the very vision that motivated Jimmy Carter's malaise speech --"It's clear that the true problems of our Nation are much deeper -- deeper than gasoline lines of energy shortages, deeper even than inflation or recession"-- recycled and with a much better delivery.

But Obama's vision just isn't true for the majority of Americans.  Most Americans are productive and generally happy; hard-working and actively involved in their communities through church and their children's schools.

Most Americans are generous, and favorably disposed towards strangers and eager to help the world.

Obama doesn't know this America, which is certainly the backbone of most suburbs, small towns and rural communities in flyover-country and, truth be told, on most of the coasts outside of the largest urban centers. 
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