Friday, January 4, 2013

It's been how many years?

God, your uncl's been busy.  For one thing, I've become a real uncle.  Love my nieces.

For another, teaching's become busier.

For yet another, politics has gone crazy!  Four years of a left-of-center Democratic president, and the disloyal opposition still calls him a socialist or whatever else.  Near as I can make out, that's because

  • he's black
  • he has a funny foreign name
  • he is a Democrat

It's like Clinton Derangement Syndrome, but it's weirder.  People hated Bill Clinton for his philandering, but even more for stealing the opposition's thunder: a Southern and Southern Baptist governor who helped (did not make) the economy hum, who ended "welfare as we know it," who suspended Glass-Steagall, who initiated NAFTA.  Hillary faces some of that, only worse: she's a woman.

As for Obama, he's Eisenhower.  I don't much like his war and his kowtowing to Wall Street, but by and large Ike would agree with most of what he's doing.  Unlike Ike, BHO is unwilling to do something big.  Eisenhower gave us the Interstates, for better or for worse.  Obama gave us ACOA.  A Heritage Foundation health care plan.  No wonder the righties hate him: again, someone stole their thunder.  And he's black!