Obama's cult

William Greider rites in the Nation an article highly critical of Obama's potential deficit fighting upcoming plan. Basically, he claims that Obama will cause a depression fighting the deficit. Yet, time and again he pays homage and applauds Obama. Here are some examples: "I know that sounds too strong and brutally unfair, given the president's energetic vision for the country and his early efforts to stimulate economic recovery." he says that right after stating that Obama will be more a Hoover than Roosevelt fighting the deficits now; that is some vision. "Barack Obama is a towering political talent by comparison" to Hoover "but also has troubling similarities." What does this sentence mean actually? One cannot tower above others and yet be the same size, or may be Obama can. We will end with the following: "In the era of big government, Obama is a far more activist president, but he has followed a less brutal version of the same conservative thinking. Pour billions first into restoring the financial system, then it can revive the real economy. That approach was backwards, as nervous members of Congress are beginning to grasp."

Greider feels forced, kind of cult following, to complement Obama for policies Greider is alarm by. In addition, he also forgets that Obama the politician made terrible mistakes. His handling of the banks was subservient, he totally botched the health care reform process and he forgot about the unemployed. Obama may tower over ants, but is dwarfed by capable politicians.