Let me here illustrate how I see some things that others have found troubling.
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A friend wrote to me expressing concern about Obama’s appointments. His concern was that these appointments --all those Clintonites!-- raise questions about just Obama is about. "If I had wanted another Clinton administration,” he wrote, “I would have voted for Hillary."
I WROTE BACK TO MY FRIEND:
Here's the strategy as I see it.
In Obama, we have one of the most truly radical presidents in the history of the United States. Not radical necessarily in terms of policy statements, though I expect some major departures in such policy directions will be coming, too. But radical in his being. Most people don't seem to see it, but I believe that you do.
He's also taking over at a time when Americans have been ruled by fear, and they are more fearful when they think of change than they might have been in some better circumstance. And not least, he's a man of color, he's a person who is so clearly not "one of us" as Americans perceive things, and he partakes of that American fear of the black male and American suspicion that a black leader is a "radical" or "socialist" or even "terrorist."
He's also coming to power at a moment when it is the spirit of divisiveness that has weakened the American people, preventing them from coming together to achieve things for their common values, creating strife that weakens the people like the Tower of Babel made it impossible for humankind to communicate with each other. But the Bushite effect was worse than in the tale of Babel: rather than the mere incomprehension God sowed in the biblical story, this Bushite regime deliberately fomented deep conflicts between groups of Americans.
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