Over a year ago I wrote in my blog entry, “Letter to Obama”, and opined that “The great battles before him (Obama) will not be due to the economy or Islamic fundamentalists. They will be the battles to overcome the resistance of reactionaries, ideologues, and even good-willed traditionalists who just don’t get what he’s talking about.”
Obama’s problem today is that he not only understands democracy, our Constitution, and the intentions of our Founding Fathers, but that he actually believes those ideas can work. Most everyone else has given up on those ideas idea as sheer folly. Democratic process is inherently messy and inefficient, which is why Winston Churchill said, “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms…” While Obama is trying to lead us toward engagement, invention, and creative compromise, the rest are are Hell-bent on bullying the system to satisfy their own desires, interests, and ambitions—-even if it kills them (and the rest of us) in the process.
