Yelling Vignettes

Re: "...one of them thrown away..." John - A powerful video indeed! But it’s precisely the ‘yelling vignettes’ that are what’s instructive – the now inevitable confrontation between Americans along racial and ideological lines. It’s revving up. If I were POTUS, I’d be really concerned. I’d worry just as Bush worried about the backlash against Arabs after 9/11. As I remember it, he took considerable pains to keep the situation from getting out of hand. It turns out, he was successful in this – perhaps too successful.

This president does just the opposite. He’s fanning the flames. Whom will we be made to blame if American should turn against American? Will we blame talk radio? Will we blame old people? Who will be the target of our wrath when the storm is unleashed? Will it be ‘global warming’ or smokers or white people? Will it be bloggers?

Poor Obama, who proclaimed himself as uniter. What must he be thinking as he watches it all fly apart? Even the villains he had wanted to court have shut him out. What’s left? Only cold ideology (with the vicious streak of a scorned lover).

Will we ignore the president’s role? Will we excuse him for keeping the throttle down even as the train approaches the terminus?