Not a lion

In preparation for the big O’s speech tonight, it would be appropriate to recall words from a past president. Guess who? He believed that there was always graft in government, but what worried him was what he saw as a pattern by Washington of officials to deploy public money and means to perpetuate and promote themselves and their allies in office. Such corruption he believed was fatal to the American experiment because an affliction in one part of the state could infect and kill the whole. He learned that the ambitions of the men who would be president were best served by total immersion in the mechanics and the substance of political life. Politics, therefore, is trump.

The above leader also believed that never for a moment could the great body of citizens of any state deliberately intend to do wrong. They may be under the influence of temporary excitement or misguided opinions, common mistakes, and be misled for a time by the suggestions of self-interest, but a community so enlightened and patriotic as the people of the U.S. would soon make themselves sensible of their errors and when convinced be ready to repair them.

The power and might of a politician par excellence like Obama are reminiscent of the American lion, Andrew Jackson. Jackson, however, fought corruption, self-aggrandizement and government interference in peoples’ lives. The big O embodies these Jacksonian monsters. Also, Jackson embraced belief in the basic goodness and religiosity of the American public and their ability to see the errors of their ways. The big O counts on his deceptive appeal and his program of misdirection, confusion and fear to perpetuate his power.

I’m ready for Obama’s speech tonight.

Jackson lived in another, different, now dead time. The era of Obama dawns. The breakout is like a cuniculus of socialism..