0127 Same As He Ever Was

January 27, 2010, 6:27 am

Same As He Ever Was

These days quite a few people are frustrated with President Obama’s failure to challenge conservative ideology. The spending freeze — about which the best thing you can say in its favor is that it’s a transparently cynical PR stunt — has, for many, been the final straw: rhetorically, it’s a complete concession to Reaganism.
最近、多くの人がオバマ大統領が保守的なイデオロギーへ挑戦して失敗したことにイラついている。嫌消費は　多くの人にとって、最後の一撃になろうとしている。　我々が、そのムードの中で、せいぜい言えることは、それはせいぜい気づくことなく皮肉的なＰＲであるということだ。誇張すると、それはレーガン主義への完全な譲歩である。

But why should we be surprised? Here’s one from the vault. Two years ago, I was deeply frustrated with Obama’s apparent endorsement of the Reagan myth.
しかし、なぜ我々は驚いているのか？２年前、私は、オバマ大統領が明らかにレーガン神話を支持していることに深くイラついていた。
There was a lot of delusion among progressives who convinced themselves, in the face of clear evidence to the contrary, that Obama was a strong champion of their values. He wasn’t and isn’t.



That doesn’t mean that there’s no difference between the parties, that everything would have been the same if McCain had won. But progressives are in the process of losing a big chance to change the narrative, and that’s largely because they have a leader who never had any inclination to do so.