re: #16 wrenchwench

President Obama is more like a bridge, between what was and what may be.

In my view, the question is whether we look towards the future, or if in atavistic fashion we try to run backwards towards some (non-existent) idyl.

Earlier a I linked to a Chait piece about Romney not wanting to apologize, and now Romney for 4 years now has been accusing Obama of “apologizing” to other nations when, in Romney’s eyes, the US has nothing for which to apologize.

Thus Romney knows how to play the strings of nationalism in the orchestra of America. He does this will full knowledge and planning, btw, because that is his best be to becoming the alpha male in a system that requires at least nominal group approval for someone to become the top dog.

So, while Obama is not really a total corrective to the androcentric national-religion, he’s the most this nation has gone in that direction.

Which is why the fundamentalist wingnuts rant so much about Obama, and create such fantasies. Speaking of the latter, I see the latest OUTRAGE!! over at WND has something to do with a mysterious WEDDING RING!! Barack Obama was wearing, before he met Michelle. Yes, really.

Anyway, in their blind and ignorant fear the wingnuts do sense one tiny bit of reality - Obama is not one of them.

Fortunately, for the rest of us.