The best columns I’m reading these days are those of Mark Morford. He writes perceptively about anything that catches his eye. He is brilliantly articulate and wickedly funny. Trust me; if you have sensibilities at all like mine, check him out. The San Francisco Chronicle has dropped his weekly column, so you can only see it on SFGate.com. (Click here.)
A recent excerpt:
By Obama’s own insistence that he be held accountable for it all, no one knows for sure if all of these spectacular, historic moves — the bailouts, the massive recovery program, the jobs, housing, overhauls in health care and education and etcetera — if any of it, will actually work.
It is, by every estimation, the biggest political and fiscal gamble in a generation, maybe five. It is dicey and dangerous and wildly progressive in scope and ambition, and you know this is true because many bitter, unloved Republicans are seething and whining and tearing into every Obama idea they can find, simply because said plans don’t do enough to fellate the wealthy and worship oil companies and ignore children.
Maybe longtime pundit David Gergen said it best when he noted that Obama’s agenda is more than merely a stack of dramatic, expensive proposals. It’s actually more akin to FDR’s New Deal rolled into Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society; the grand sum of what Obama is attempting to do just so happens to be “the greatest political drama in our lifetime.
This, then, is our grand takeaway. If Obama can pull it off, if he can follow through with even half of these massive, historic overhauls, it will result in one of the most profound transformations and redefinitions of American ideals in history. And I gotta say, it’s damn nice to write that sentence and not be referring to warmongering and torture and God-sanctioned homophobia. What a thing.”
See interview of Morford by Steve Outing on Pointer Online.
