I was waiting for the brown shirts comment… a bit harsh but that’s what I get for posting on politics.

This is the only fun libertarians / conservatives will have… watching him enrage the looney left. All else is downhill.

O’s apparent limited understanding of important aspects of the real world are worrying (I mean, some of the adolescent comments he’s made about the economy….geeze) but this might be offset, to some extent anyway, by an awareness of his weaknesses leading to good or practical personnel choices.

If we’re lucky, he’ll be another inneffectual leftist ala Jimmy Carter. But I’m starting to see two shadowy images that may presage some difficult times ahead—

One, he’s revelling in this FDR comparison, and talking the kind of big programmatic stuff we haven’t seen since the last FDR imitator launched the Great Society, along with a few other things, both good and bad, that are still reverberating through the culture; and,

Two, the recent revelations about the Governor of Illinois, and the well-known cess poolery of Chicago politics in general, remind me of a contemporary of FDR who also aspired to the presidency.

“All The King’s Men” was on the other day, the original with Broderick Crawford. If you haven’t seen it, or seen it lately, take the time. Somehow, it seems so familiar…

Here’s an interesting comment by Buddy Larsen at Roger Simon’s blog:

“what Promoguy is getting at starting at #6 is that the interlocking of corporate & government directorship (a 1920s Italian innovation, the new modernist fascism’s commercial expression) answers the question of beggar-thy-neighbor mercantilism (search Smoot-Hawley) in secret rather than at the ballot box. Not only the freeman right but also the ‘real’ left, the Steinbeck and Dos Passos and Lincoln Brigade kind of left, ought to be horrified, as their straw man –wars and repressions ginned up in secret by international profiteers –is as we speak being hooked up to the machinery in Dr. Frankenstein’s old castle laboratory.”