"I wish Barack Obama luck — if it's him, France will be very happy," Sarkozy responded to a question asking whether his ebullient praise of Obama was an endorsement. Referring to his initial 2006 meeting with Obama in Washington while Sarkozy was preparing his run for the French presidency, the Frenchman recalled, "There were just the two of us in the room, and one became President. Now it's up to the other to do likewise."
Byrdeye said...
Obama is a change in skin color
...not policy.
Get it straight, folks.
He's from the Blue Pill, not the Red Pill, Party.
Submariner said ...

Byrdeye is completely wrong. Obama may not be revolutionary but he is a distinct difference. What has been obscured during the last seven years is the radical upset in the foreign and domestic framework and Obama is a return to the order established by Roosevelt.
Senator Obama's mastery of political chiaroscuro resembles that of a Renaissance painter. His tasks and promises are:
1)reestablish footing for the entrenched middle and upper-middle classes (There is no surer path to revoltion than a large cadre of dissatisfied cultural elites.)
2)reinvigorate the postwar global relationship in which the US maintains its status as first among equals in exchange for restraints (i.e. consensus) on its exercise of power.
3) facilitate the entry of Iran into the pantheon of leading nations. This can take the pattern of minimal disruption and absent the nuclear issue the way it did with Brazil and South Africa. Or it can be the long, arduous, mutually destabilizing process that accompanied the rise of China (proxy wars in Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and fractured reigns of LBJ and Nixon.)
Of course, the sword of Damocles looming overhead is the Earth's finite capacity to accomodate current patterns of human consumption.
CNulan said...
"Obama is a return to the order established by Roosevelt."Which order is utterly and completely unsustainable.Watching how long his illusory Rorschachian production can help sustain the larger cinematic diversion of which it's a part - should nevertheless prove interesting.
For those of us just clockwatching, it's a more the merrier proposition timewise...,