Friday, January 20, 2012

O'Apologist Vents

Andrew Sullivan: How Obama's Long Game Will Outsmart His Critics - The Daily Beast

...And what have we seen? A recurring pattern. To use the terms Obama first employed in his inaugural address: the president begins by extending a hand to his opponents; when they respond by raising a fist, he demonstrates that they are the source of the problem; then, finally, he moves to his preferred position of moderate liberalism and fights for it without being effectively tarred as an ideologue or a divider. This kind of strategy takes time. And it means there are long stretches when Obama seems incapable of defending himself, or willing to let others to define him, or simply weak. I remember those stretches during the campaign against Hillary Clinton. I also remember whose strategy won out in the end...

Gaseous vapors notwithstanding, Mr.Sullivan bends history to suit his vision. Obama did not win the nomination; Clinton received more votes. Like all his laurels, Obama was given the nomination by a corrupt process. Sullivan may think Obama is a master of the eleven-stack chessboard; I think he is more like grey water seeking the path of least resistance as gravity forces it to the sewer.

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