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Obama and a lesson from Thucydides

May 4, 2009 - 8:14 am - by Roger Kimball
Professor Guvinoff
2009-05-04 11:46:28

How wonderful it would be for this analysis to be mistaken! Unfortunately, there are many facts confirming it.

Last year there were many indications (personal associations, hiding all he could while professing a historic breakthrough in transparency, repudiating his own grand-mother, getting involved in the politics of Kenya, etc…) that the man was thinking like an agent of subversion. Now, he is behaving like one, even personally threatening and firing business executives.

Fortunately, he is also trying to talk down the significance of the tea parties, only to further energize them. This man is dangerous. We better get practical about identifying his vulnerabilities.