Thursday, October 15, 2009

Pragmatist...Obama??

Jonah Goldberg wrote an article titled, "Where did Obama the pragmatist go?" it was published in the Dallas Morning News paper along with The Los Angeles Times and the New York Post. In this article Goldberg discusses his views and opinions based off a sentence that President Obama said in his speech when he accepted the Democratic bid for presidency in Denver. Goldberg feels that Obama isn't holding up to that part of his speech.

Jonah Goldberg it the founding editor of National Review Online and is currently the editor-at-large. He also was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for his column in the Los Angeles Times. Currently his column is carried by 4 major newspapers. Goldberg is also the author of Liberal Fascism a book that hit number 1 on Amazon.com and The New York Times. I feel like Goldberg has a good political head on his shoulders. He probably understands politics a lot better than I, however I feel that most people that have the drive to follow politics like he does becomes bias towards their political party of choice. I just don't see how someone can write and article of any kind with out the haze in their minds.

I kind of feel like Goldberg isn't just talking about one thing in this article, in the beginning of the article he is talking about the war in Afghanistan and then he talks about the economy in the United States and then back to Afghanistan. Goldberg even throws Joe Biden's name in the ring with one sentence. I guess ultimately Goldberg feels that Obama isn't acting as a pragmatist (a person who thinks practically).

As I have said before, I have never kept up with politics but it seems that Obama was given a nation that was already in some form of depression and NO ONE can just turn things around with the drop of a hat...things change and people change. It's not like Obama has suddenly taken on Republican or Liberal Views. He gave that speech over a year ago...a lot has happened since then, even I know that.

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