Obama the great unifier
One thing George W. Bush learned from Karl Rove is that all that high-minded stuff about brotherly love and the Great Melting Pot is dreck.
We're a nation of tribes, prejudices and special interests. If you can cobble together a big enough coalition of angry people by appealing to their basest hot-button phobias, you can get something done in this country, like passing tax cuts for the wealthiest five per cent of our population.
Now comes Barack Obama with an innovative concept: to be a true unifier (I refuse to use the Bushism "uniter"), why not tick everybody off by goring all the oxen at once? It's a little like the martyr who gathers all the spear points into his own body so that his army can break through the lines.
At least, in their mutual disappointment, the factions are talking to one another. This is a lot further than W. got in eight years, and Obama isn't even president yet.
CHAN LOWE has been the Sun Sentinel’s first and only editorial cartoonist for the past twenty-six years. Before that, he worked as cartoonist and writer for the Oklahoma City Times and the Shawnee (OK) News-Star.
Comments
Excellent, Mr. Lowe. As always!
Posted by: John C. Tryon | January 14, 2009 4:02 PM
I felt so unified after learning Obama spent 20 years listening to the unifying tripe of Reverend Wright. And you're right- he's not even President yet and 2 of his top choices have been embarassments. His Senate seat was filled by a fellow Dumbocrat who is facing more felonies than Al Capone- but thanks to media Kool-Aid drinkers like you, President Hopenchange glides through it like a pig through slop. Can't wait to see what he ("I will stand with the Muslims") will do when Isreal gets fed up and blows Iran into little pieces. You sir, need to have someone pull your head out of your behind.
Posted by: Greg | January 14, 2009 6:12 PM
Ah Greg, it's so heartwarming to see that you are one of those in that editorial cartoon. Chad's always right on the mark.
Posted by: Rory | January 14, 2009 7:33 PM