Thoughts in Words

There You Have It .. April 8, 2010

When I told people years ago, what effect Obama is going to have, they were sceptical. Hmm, ok maybe they were primarily sceptical of me predicting him beeing elected, but this certainly didn’t make my prediction any more believable.
Now I read my words on Glenn Greenwalds blog. Which, as primitive and stupid as it is, fills me with a little bit of satisfaction.

Here again, we see one of the principal and longest-lasting effect of the Obama presidency: to put a pretty, eloquent, progressive face on what (until quite recently) were considered by a large segment of the citizenry to be tyrannical right-wing extremism (e.g., indefinite detention, military commissions, an endless and always-expanding “War on Terror,” immunity for war criminals, rampant corporatism — and now unchecked presidential assassinations of Americans), and thus to transform what were once bitter, partisan controversies into harmonious, bipartisan consensus: