A Happy 4th to everyone. Believe me – I would have liked to have prepared a Required Reading that was appropriately and perhaps tritely thematic, but there was too much other good stuff out there. 1) From the New York Times, “New and Not Improved” by the editors. Hell hath no fury like a Grey Lady scorned. Disappointed over Barack Obama’s latest evolutions, the Times has lashed out with a furious editorial, lamenting, “We are not shocked when a candidate moves to the center for the general election. But Mr. Obama’s shifts are striking because he was the candidate who proposed to change the face of politics, the man of passionate convictions who did not play old political games.” And then to really twist the knife, the editors conclude with the observation, “This country needs change it can believe in.” Meow. Now, if you’ll pardon my French, what in tarnation is the Times talking about when it says Obama “was a man of passionate convictions?” Where and on what issues exactly did he manifest those convictions? Favoring Hope/Change, however strongly, really doesn’t qualify as a conviction. 2) From BarackObama.com, “Why I Screwed the Left on FISA*” by Barack Obama. (*Actually, the essay was untitled, so I tried to give it a title that fit) Obama goes to Greenwaldian lengths to explain one of this week’s many betrayals of the left. Since I know no one will follow the link, I’m going to provide a lengthy excerpt so that you may best wallow in the equivocations and intellectual confusion:
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