Thursday, July 3. 2008The View from the Couch: Happy FourthThis will be one odd Fourth of July. President-to-be-most-likely Barack Obama gave speeches this week on patriotism, on values, on religious groups playing a bigger role (delivered to "Faith in America"! ) in the nation, corralling the center (he hopes), while the stock market tanks, people get loans to fill up their gas tanks, California is burning, fireworks being outlawed, Fox News losing viewers, but old Rush gets a rush from his new many millions contract. John McCain might have trouble keeping the base happy, but not Limbaugh. I listened to him for a year, wrote about it in my '96 campaign book, and am impressed he's managed to triumph over his troubles (drug habit, subsequent hearing loss, fatness, etc.) Rush can't make it on TV, but radio, his audience, at least, loves him. Speaking of seeing, rather than just hearing, most Americans can visualize Barack Obama as President, but they are still trying to focus picturing Michele as First Lady. But, it's equally hard to focus on Cindy McCain as First Lady, too. So all that might end up a wash. What we're hearing today about the Fourth is refreshing, sort of. Juan Williams, one of NPR's turncoats who are consorting with the enemy on Fox News, went on his home radio network this mourning pointing out that black Americans, at least those with long memories, don't find much solace in Independence Day, given the history of blacks in America. There's a conversation we wouldn't be having without the Obama ascendancy. Change is certainly in the air. In fact, it's a whirlwind out there right now. It is almost an example of look out for what you wish for; Obama wants change and now it's everywhere, job losses, paper profits evaporating, landscape being denuded, the poor still getting even poorer. Obama might, unfortunately, reap what is being sowed. Only Rush doesn't change; his dittoheads are incapable of change. As one of the grandees of early America wrote, Foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. Happy Fourth! Trackbacks
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