(Via RCP)
Wow.
I just can’t get past this Salon post’s title: “Obama’s toughest task: Make us believe again.” The utter passivity and refusal to face responsibility is… breathtakingly typical of Salon, really. If I wanted to write an article that screamed to the world I am a liberal Democrat who cannot be trusted to tie my own shoes without a government watchdog program it’d look a lot like this post: you see, according to the author the problem here is apparently we’re just not worthy of The One’s perfect neo-Hegelian vision. Which is admittedly a nicer way to put it than “the President doesn’t know the first thing about how to govern.” Not more accurate, but nicer.
Or perhaps there’s a simpler answer: the author has some intellectual turf to defend. From the article (bolding mine): Continue reading #rsrh ‘*Make* us believe again.’