Bob Herbert's NYT column last week opened with a Fiddler on the Roof quote, which I appreciate, because I always appreciate when black people poach culture from us Jews. It all too often works the other way.
The quote from Tevye was this: “We haven’t got the man ... we had when we began.” And Herbert was referring to Obama.
Oh, how I'd prefer to pretend that Obama isn't blatantly lame-ing around these days.
I don't have cable this summer and was planning a nice vacay from thinking about the election. Overall, it was a sound plan. Most of what I see Anderson Cooper silently mouthing while I'm on the Precor I can deduce from the closed captions is pretty inane. The New Yorker cover, Jesse Jackson's "nuts" comments--it's interesting, but I won't feel uninformed not knowing it. (Were I Obama, I would have responded: Now I got the world swingin from my nuts/Damn it feels good to be a gangster.)
Anyway, much as I'd like to deny it, Herbert, and everyone else complaining about Obama's faith-based retroactive telecomm immunity Iraq backpedaling, has a point. Obama is disappointing us and I'd rather avoid it. I expect him to cool out again, and I'm just biding my time, hoping against any severe letdown.
It sounds fun to be a screw-you-lefties pragmatist, but my heart's not in it. I don't think Obama's is either.
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