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April 25, 2007
The Audacity of Hype
Then there's Obama. I like the guy. "Too cool and laid-back to be a really good professor" is how one of my friends remembered him in a conversation we had a couple of months ago. (Our law school class overlapped with his tenure as a law prof/state senator.) I never had him as a prof, but I can picture it.
He's to the left of 87 percent of his Senate colleagues on economic issues. And I don't like that. But what I really don't like is his vacuous "up with people!" message--I'm for new ideas! and against old political labels! It offends me with its inoffensiveness. If you read Obama's 2004 Democratic Convention speech, you learn that the Audacity of Hope is the promise of redemption through presidential politics. Is audacious the right word for believing in that? The idea that the president's capable of righting all the country's wrongs is just about the stupidest thing a person could believe in, and liberals who embrace it forfeit all right to get snooty with creationist yokels. "Intelligent Design" at least seems pretty much nonfalsifiable, whereas presidential salvationism gets falsified just about every day of the week, every week of the year, every year of every administration of any living American's lifetime.
"Least Dangerous Democrat," by Gene Healy, AFF, April 16, 2007
Posted at April 25, 2007 06:27 AM | Categories: Politics
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