fr_defenestrato | Plus ça change... (Reply)

I've long quoted and linked to the Rude Pundit's columns and cheered his dissing of the fuckheads at the top of the Federal Government, which of course were Republican fuckheads for eight years under, to my way of thinking, the most appalling criminal ever to run this country, Dick Cheney. Oh, and his sock puppet, the president, what was his name.

So I've been waiting for the Rude One to start picking on Pres. Obama and his administration in the same sort of fashion... or, well, at all... and as of today I finally have evidence of 'at all'. This seems to me a singularly cogent and disinterested view of Obama's young presidency: 'While people trust Obama in an almost surreal way, the President's got to offer a controlling concept to his plans. If he has one beyond, "Holy fuck, we gotta do something," he has yet to articulate it.'

I wonder how long it's going to take the average liberal(ish) citizen to stop being distracted by bells and whistles (like ending torture and jump-starting stem cell research—not that this isn't good stuff in and of itself) and notice that Obama's dealings with the wealth-and-power elite of the country look very much like the status quo. Ok, fine, he made a mean face at the domestic auto industry and smacked a few peepees; but when Europe patently rejects the machinations of the American Great Black Hope because he refuses to tighten oversight of the financial industries whose carnivorous practices created the current global financial crisis... um... is it too early to say 'I told you so'?

Also, something about his 'Oh, we're going to get along just fine!' response to said rejection made me think explicitly of Bush's frequent recourse to utter make-believe.