[Peace-discuss] The current state of the liberal mind

[C. G. Estabrook]

"Toxic fiefdoms"?!  As in, pestilential appanages? His mystification is so far 
from reality that he has to mix his metaphors from pre-capitalist sources?

In fact, the column is a particularly disgusting defense of the USG's pro-war 
and pro-Wall Street policies, couched as praise of Obama.  --CGE


David Green wrote:
> The one sentence in today's Frank Rich column that addresses substantive 
> isssus, which implies that Obama ultimately bears no responsibility in 
> relation to these issues:
> 
> "There are at least two toxic fiefdoms to keep the president and us awake at 
> night: Pakistan and Wall Street. Both could wreak further untold catastrophe.
>  Obama has control over neither, and in the case of the financial sector, he 
> is fielding a team dominated by Robert Rubin protégés whose wisdom remains, 
> to put it generously, unproven."
> 
> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/03/opinion/03rich.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&pagewanted=print
> 
> 
> <http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/03/opinion/03rich.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&pagewanted=print>