I was feeling rather snarky and popped off when I should have let well enough alone. Perhaps I should have said that I am so tired of politics which get mired in the personal rather stepping out and addressing the communal concerns. What has happened to focusing on what a person has done in his/her public service in order to take a guess at what their future actions might be? If we had done this with Bush he would not have been elected. The man was/is a seriously bad manager of just about everything he has ever done. Well maybe he was good at abusing drugs, but hey I never hold such a thing for or against anybody. I do like Obama, I feel like he has been fairly straight foreward and direct with everything he has done in the past and I like how he has handled pressure so far. However you were asking if this little fiasco with his minister was going to sink him and I have to say I do not know.
I do know that there are folks out there collecting as much muck as possible to throw at him. The other thing I know is that those who are listening to him see his response to this situation as being handled as well as it possibly can be dealt with. I worry that he maybe perceived as another Adlai Stevenson. Still the American voters may feel that is actually time to elect some one who can comprehend the complex issues our society faces.
I am just not holding my breath on it though.
Tucker
But again it is the absurd and its contradictory life that teaches us. For the mistake is thinking that quantity of experience depends on circumstances of our life when it depends soley on us.
Albert Camus: The Myth of Sisyphus, translated by J. O'Brien, copyright 1955 by Alfred A. Knopf
