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cswake
03-12-2011, 09:23 AM
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703559604576176620582972608.html?m od=googlenews_wsj


American conservatives have struggled to press the president's policies into a meaningful narrative. Is he a socialist? No, at least not in the sense of wanting the state to own key industries. Is he a straightforward New Deal big spender, in the model of FDR and LBJ? Not exactly.

My guess is that, if anything, Obama would verbalize his ideology using the same vocabulary that Eurocrats do. He would say he wants a fairer America, a more tolerant America, a less arrogant America, a more engaged America. When you prize away the cliché, what these phrases amount to are higher taxes, less patriotism, a bigger role for state bureaucracies, and a transfer of sovereignty to global institutions.

amy31416
03-12-2011, 09:31 AM
Just read the article a few minutes ago...excellent commentary, but I think it falls mostly on deaf ears. The neocons and the "liberals" stand to gain a lot if we go "Euro" and I don't know if our faction is gaining power quickly enough to stop/reverse it.

All the more reason to go all-out (intelligently and forcefully) in 2012.

osan
03-15-2011, 10:10 AM
Good article. Spread it around - people need to see this truth, particularly coming from an EU official.

Original_Intent
03-15-2011, 10:45 AM
reposted on my *other* forum. Really excellent article. Europe and the U.S. need more like him!

anaconda
03-16-2011, 01:04 PM
Very nice article.

He lost me a little here: "Unsurprisingly, some newcomers, finding their adopted countries scorned, have turned to other, less apologetic identities."

Plus I was puzzled when he said that Obama was showing "a reluctance to deploy forces overseas." I wonder if the people of Pakistan, Iraq, and Afghanistan would concur?