A very interesting essay by David Bromwich in the current issue of the London Review of Books - thank god, eh they've not demeaned themselves like the New York Review of Books and become associated with the Huffington Post. What the hell is up with Robert Silvers, eh
Anyway, a short clip from the LRBs piece - Bromwich, even thought he does post on the Huffington Post, is interesting in his observations and wonderings about the POTUS:
"Obama’s career up to now, lucky as it was, had been wanting in singular achievements for which he alone was responsible. His experience seems not to have taught him the law of natural selection in politics by which majorities are put together out of remainders. Any act that achieves something concrete will leave small multitudes of the disappointed keening but unheard. There are hurt feelings in politics, which only time can cure if anything can. This is a truth now staring at Barack Obama, on several different fronts, but he does not accept it easily. His way of thinking is close to the spirit of that Enlightenment reasonableness which supposes a right course of action can never be described so as to be understood and not assented to.
Obama's Delusion
David Bromwick
London Review of Books
Vol. 31 No. 20,
22 October 2009
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