On Obama

[Mark Kohut]

Half-interested in the recent Plist discussion on Obama and his Presidency?
Not much
and not many, I know, full of our oversimplifications and guessed at facts
and memories.

I'm going back to trying to subtilize myself, like the ocean--that comes
from Moby Dick.

Meanwhile, for all of the left/progressives on this list who, as with
anyone as important
as a President there might be both good and bad, positive and negative
aspects I

recommend The Obama Question; A Progressive Perspective by Gary Dorrien, a
2012 book
therefore written halfway through his terms. Full of historical context and
knowledge; full of
the achievements and his gifts and strengths against opposition
yet subtly smart about his weaknesses and other real choices that he might
have made
to have produced different, better, outcomes for the polity.

He presents with clarity and sympathy the reasons many progressive folk
felt, like Joseph (sorry if you
did not want to be invoked here even in solidarity to the positions,
Joseph), betrayed and why by some/many
of his choices. Rabbi Michael Lerner of *tikkun *and perhaps most famously
in opposition, Cornel West,
both described as generous friends of the author who only reluctantly
voiced opposition finally.

That's All, Folks.
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