June 8, 2009

Obama's Broken Feedback Loop

By Rosslyn Smith
How does a president learn and grow, if the press won't criticize him, and instead treats him as a god. Two articles published yesterday on Pajamas Media, taken together shed some light on the topic.  Victor Davis Hanson's The Reckoning is a story about the beliefs Hanson developed while pursing his advance education and how they affected him.  He compares his return to run the family farm with Obama's entering the White HouseOnly someone who has not been in the real world, but only marketed rhetoric without consequences (e.g., if Obama had a bad day organizing, or legislating, was he fired?) could believe such things. In short, Obama reminds me a little of myself-at 26. Hanson's tale of the bullying neighbor whose long term goal was to drive him off in order to buy the place cheap and how he tried to deal with his using the lessons learned in academia is priceless.  Alas, I fear that Hanson has missed a key factor in his theory...(Read Full Article)