I’m headed into the woods. Annual Adirondacks trip for a few days. But here’s my question. Obama is leading a popular movement. This is the first real progressive political movement of my lifetime, excepting the McCarthy spasm when I was a kid (and yes, followed by the cultural revolution…). I was angered by Hillary’s "celestial… everything will be right in the world" mockery in her yellowjacketed speech the other day. She is just like Malcolm Hoenlein saying, Why change anything, that will lead to mischief. Obviously Obama’s people want change.
Still haven’t gotten to my question. What do these people want to change? Forget about Obama. He’s just a guy we can believe in, for various reasons. Seems alright to me. As he says, it’s not about him. And what does this progressive movement want? Journalists should be interviewing these people. I’ll try to interview some of ’em in the woods.
(And yes, I think many share my hobbyhorse. I was at two dinner parties recently where the mood of the table was impatient re Palestinian freedom. And what does it mean that two things Obama has had to renounce publicly–the Walt/Mearsheimer ad on his website, and Zbig Brzezinski’s endorsement of the book–involve the same hot-button issue?)
