Matt Miller in Mourning by Political Cynic

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-im-mad-at-obama/2011/08/10/gIQAhEPi6I_story.html


Is Matt Miller a bit of a drama queen?  Well yes! But for Mr. Miller to chatter almost endlessly on, at least to this reader, about the political sins of Obama seems so out of place, after all Obama has proven himself to be a New Democrat in all things. So why should this IMF inspired Structural Adjustment, the Neo-liberal monetarist answer to every economic crisis, i.e. Austerity, come as any surprise, to anyone who might consider themselves a conscious observer, of the deeply held political beliefs of this President except, of course, the willfully blind. That the Republicans have become absolute political nihilists is beyond question, except for the defenders of that destructiveness as a matter of politics, as matter of strategy, aside from the issue of abiding by any notion of public morality, long since discarded. But here is Mr. Miller caught in his own little melodrama of disillusion asking his audience to join him in his act of public mourning, for the loss of the True Leader, the rhetorician extraordinaire who became a continuing  disappointment, and worst of all a reminder of one’s own bad judgment.          

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Rootless cosmopolitan,down at heels intellectual;would be writer. 'Polemic is a discourse of conflict, whose effect depends on a delicate balance between the requirements of truth and the enticements of anger, the duty to argue and the zest to inflame. Its rhetoric allows, even enforces, a certain figurative licence. Like epitaphs in Johnson’s adage, it is not under oath.' https://www.lrb.co.uk/v15/n20/perry-anderson/diary
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