So the president has let it slip that it would be so much easier to be the president of China.
To Michael Goodwin for The New York Post, here, this is evidence of how reality keeps intruding on the president, who protests too much that he is not an ideologue:
To Michael Goodwin for The New York Post, here, this is evidence of how reality keeps intruding on the president, who protests too much that he is not an ideologue:
[M]y suspicion is that it's not the problems per se that have Obama envying a lower rung on the global ladder. It's that he regards them as endless distractions that keep getting in the way of his transformative agenda.
He is a man of the faculty lounge who wants a blank slate so he can remake the nation into a more perfect place, as he sees it. ...
But damn it, the country and the world won't cooperate.
Or as Socrates put it:
He who is the real tyrant . . . is the real slave . . .. He has desires which he is utterly unable to satisfy, and has more wants than any one, and is truly poor . . . he ... is full of convulsions, and distractions, even as the State which he resembles.
He is a man of the faculty lounge who wants a blank slate so he can remake the nation into a more perfect place, as he sees it. ...
But damn it, the country and the world won't cooperate.
Or as Socrates put it:
He who is the real tyrant . . . is the real slave . . .. He has desires which he is utterly unable to satisfy, and has more wants than any one, and is truly poor . . . he ... is full of convulsions, and distractions, even as the State which he resembles.
