Thursday, December 11, 2008
Hmmm. I think the Obama administration may well come to town with a special prosecutor dogging its heels.
And the press may well lead the charge. Because, you see, the one thing more interesting than a hagiography is a juicy scandal.
In the oddest way, this whole situation is beginning to remind of of the OJ murder trial.
At the time, the issue became not OJ's guilt or innocence, but "The System" which supposedly railroaded black men into prison, the supposedly institutional racism of police departments, and something called "White Privilege." I remember being in the break room at Hitachi Telecom - along with the rest of the company - when the verdict was read out. Among the white people in the break room there was utter disbelief, among the black people there was elation. (The Chinese and Japanese at the company expressed no opinion that I could detect.)
In the same way, this election hinged not on Obama's actual fitness for office, but on whether any criticism of him, any hard questions, might actually be racially based. So, in the end, all that was left was to praise The One.
Now that he's achieved the office, the chattering classes are beginning to admit that, well, they might not have served the Republic all that well, that groupthink and a desire not to offend might have, well, allowed an empty suit to attain the highest office in the land.
And now, not just an empty suit, but an empty suit orbiting a cast of colorfully corrupt characters right out of central casting.
Of course, the fact that he's appointing actual adults to his cabinet, and thereby alienating the nutroots, isn't helping him.
It's like this perfect storm in the making: the unanswered past rising up like Banquo's ghost, the jilted lovers howling for satisfaction, the legacy media looking for relevance. Oh, and at the center of the storm a lawyer whose initial answers recall "Clintonesque".
("I had no contact with the governor or his office, and so I was not aware of what was happening.")
Could it possibly be that we'll have a new scandal every 90 days for the next eight years?
Oh Lord!
And the press may well lead the charge. Because, you see, the one thing more interesting than a hagiography is a juicy scandal.
In the oddest way, this whole situation is beginning to remind of of the OJ murder trial.
At the time, the issue became not OJ's guilt or innocence, but "The System" which supposedly railroaded black men into prison, the supposedly institutional racism of police departments, and something called "White Privilege." I remember being in the break room at Hitachi Telecom - along with the rest of the company - when the verdict was read out. Among the white people in the break room there was utter disbelief, among the black people there was elation. (The Chinese and Japanese at the company expressed no opinion that I could detect.)
In the same way, this election hinged not on Obama's actual fitness for office, but on whether any criticism of him, any hard questions, might actually be racially based. So, in the end, all that was left was to praise The One.
Now that he's achieved the office, the chattering classes are beginning to admit that, well, they might not have served the Republic all that well, that groupthink and a desire not to offend might have, well, allowed an empty suit to attain the highest office in the land.
And now, not just an empty suit, but an empty suit orbiting a cast of colorfully corrupt characters right out of central casting.
Of course, the fact that he's appointing actual adults to his cabinet, and thereby alienating the nutroots, isn't helping him.
It's like this perfect storm in the making: the unanswered past rising up like Banquo's ghost, the jilted lovers howling for satisfaction, the legacy media looking for relevance. Oh, and at the center of the storm a lawyer whose initial answers recall "Clintonesque".
("I had no contact with the governor or his office, and so I was not aware of what was happening.")
Could it possibly be that we'll have a new scandal every 90 days for the next eight years?
Oh Lord!
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