Barack Obama

As my twitter feed has already suggested, my confidence in the Obama administration has been shaken, perhaps beyond repair. Given the wide range of reasons, more often illegitimate than justifiable for shaky faith in Barack Obama, I feel compelled to elaborate on my specific sources of concern.

A short post this time. It’s 5AM in Paris. I’ll try not to make this a habit.

Recently I was on the Facebook when I noticed that a friend’s status read “_____ is mesmerized by Barack Obama.” This statement instantly filled me with the sort of uneasy prickliness that courses through a parent’s veins when watching a child do something that is not only inconvenient but wildly wrong in principle. Now, I have no quarrel with Barack Obama. I certainly like him a lot more than I’ve liked any of his serious rivals in recent election history. But there was a certain wrongness in this statement that I couldn’t let go unanswered.