On the off chance that anyone besides the authors reads the posts on this blog, I should probably explain why Machiavelli has stopped posting here. She is currently working with some lobbyists in conjunction with her job, and out of respect for their interests and those of their clients, she feels it appropriate to take a hiatus from posting.
That said, she still sends me an obscene number of emails linking to articles she finds on the web and she sent one today that really changed my mind about Barack Obama.
Up to this point I had been buying, for the most part, the media narrative on Obama. That he is a new kind of politician who not only advocates for change, but actually embodies the change he hopes to bring about. His rhetoric is uplifting and inspiring and his message can be favorably compared to Hillary Clinton's tired dreck.
But this article in the New Statesman addresses many aspects of the Obama story that are left out of the media narrative. And without that uplifting life story, Obama becomes a just a variation on the same theme as the Clintons. I'm not one who penalizes people for aspiring to power, but I do ask that they present good reasoning as to why they should be entrusted with that authority. I had thought that, although Obama's positions were largely the same as Hillary's, he had arrived at those positions in a different way. The more I learn about Obama and his campaign, the less likely I find that possibility.
Senator Obama wants to do the same things as Senator Clinton, and largely for the same reasons. He just talks about doing them differently.
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IronicGoat however trusts fully in the anonymity of the internet, and hopes his boss's at the Neo-Straussian Cabal never discover his blog.
I was going to make a long response about how I disagree with you on this article, but instead I'll make it my next post.
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