Jonathan Franzen

[David Morris]

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 3:24 PM,  <mfarcas at mail.com> wrote:
> http://www.theatlanticwire.com/features/view/feature/Franzen-Obama-Delightful-America-Almost-a-Rogue-State-2392

"Also noteworthy is Franzen's wrenchingly uncomfortable laugh when
Manzoor asks if he's "more comfortable in America now" than when he
started writing Freedom. "No," says Franzen. "It was possible, while I
was writing the book, to look forward to some possibility of
significant change. And now, people left of the middle feel puzzled
and sort of anguished, because--we don't have an object for our anger,
but the right is still as angry as ever... It's this kind of
discouragement and dull, throbbing anxiety."
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So, as "delightful" as he finds Obama, he see the fading of "some
possibility of significant change" as a source of "discouragement and
dull, throbbing anxiety."

Yep!  Obama has been too timid.  We needed a push-back AGAINST the
wrongs of the Bush era, not just a positive forward-looking (and ever
watered-down) vision.

David Morris