Jerry;
I read the Thinker rather a lot; but I’ll confess to not having seen that article. It’s a good one.
In answer to your implied question of why these points are being ignored, I suggest the first sentance of the last para is as good an aswer as you’re going to find; “Being good Americans, we’d like to think that Mr. Obama is, as he says, trying to solve the problem.”
That appeal we heard not so very long ago, to ‘give the man a chance’ appeals to our instinctive sense of fair play in a very cold and calculated way. Americans are already so inclined. We’re made that way.
I’m reminded of a MASH episode, where Hawkeye is haunted by nightmares. Eventually, they figure out that the issue is one of his childhood, where a cousin he always looked up to, darned near drwoned him. The problemw as caused by his not being willing to face what the older cousin was really up to. The guy was a hero in his eyes, and he couldnt… wouldn’t… believe that he would ever do anything that wasn’t in his best interest.
I suspect something of the sort is going on with many folks just now, and Obama. Even the folks who don’t have him quite so high on that pedistal, don’t want to face a painful truth.
