The new bipartisanship at work: George Will praises Obama as the un-Edwards, as the adult. Yuck.

[Karmadillo]

Give me partisanship any day.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/04/AR2008010403561.html?sub=AR

Iowa's Histrionic Hucksters
Sunday, January 6, 2008; Page B07

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Although Huckabee and Edwards profess to loathe and vow to change Washington's culture, each would aggravate its toxicity. Each overflows with and wallows in the pugnacity of the self-righteous who discern contemptible motives behind all disagreements with them and who therefore think that opponents are enemies and differences are unsplittable.

The way to achieve Edwards's and Huckabee's populist goal of reducing the role of "special interests," meaning money, in government is to reduce the role of government in distributing money. But populists want to sharply increase that role by expanding the regulatory state's reach and enlarging its agenda of determining the distribution of wealth. Populists, who are slow learners, cannot comprehend this iron law: Concentrate power in Washington, and you increase the power of interests whose representatives are concentrated there.

Barack Obama, who might be mercifully closing the Clinton parenthesis in presidential history, is refreshingly cerebral amid this recrudescence of the paranoid style in American politics. He is the un-Edwards and un-Huckabee -- an adult aiming to reform the real world rather than an adolescent fantasizing mock-heroic "fights" against fictitious villains in a left-wing cartoon version of this country.

[Alexander]

1. Okay, I won't vote for Obama because of what George Will thinks.

:eyes:

[BeatleBoot]

5. Or Steve Halperin

Republican Shill

[midlife_mo_Jo]

7. George Will has been critical of repugs for quite some time now

He saw the writing on the wall earlier than some of the others.

[BeatleBoot]

14. Please.

My old man has been hissing at that mother fucker for way too long for you to say that Geroge Will now hates Republicans.

My dad was a Depression kid and World War II vet that idolizes FDR and Mario Cuomo. A yellow dog to his bones.

That fuck Geroge Will lives and breathes far right nut values.

Please, okay, please.

[midlife_mo_Jo]

16. Never said he hated them.

He's been quite critical because he knows this bunch is setting back the rethug party a good decade!

[BeatleBoot]

17. He's been critical because they haven't been right wing enough.

If he's criticised them, his answer certainly isn't Barack Obama.

Unless he has ulterior motives.

You think?

[billbuckhead]

8. Remember saying that on election night when they call it for the GOP before midnight

Obama reframes the election from one about about Republican failure and evil deeds into one about is "America ready for a black president with a Muslim name".

[ObamaAmerican]

2. Obama will be America's true unifier .eom

[BeatleBoot]

9. 12th Post on DU!!!!

A newbie for Obama!

Imagine that!

[Sarah Ibarruri]

3. George Will has always been quite the @-hole. I guess he's consistent that way. nt

[1620rock]

6. He is drooling over the prospect of Obama the lamb being led to slaughter.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

11. I'm going to pray something happens and the ticket turns out Edwards/Obama, not the other way round

Obama is gentle and will be slaughtered asap. Edwards is a tough-ass guy who will take anyone down he has to, and doesn't care who it is.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

4. "Morons, who are slow learners...

...cannot comprehend this iron law: allow unfettered corruption and greed to run rampant in the country, and you increase the unfettered corruption and greed."

There's plenty of historical reference for this, George.

[Occam Bandage]

10. He's right in one regard. Angry self-righteousness only leads to gridlock and defeat.

[The_Casual_Observer]

12. So George Will, who are you going to vote for? McCain or Obama?

[FrenchieCat]

13. My husband watched the debates with me.......

and judged Edwards as giving the impression of being only a "boy". Said it had to do with how Edwards kept saying "When I'm President, the President will".....talking about himself in the third person.

Hubby and I don't "do" politics together, so it was objective enough.....cause anytime I want to discuss politics, he's total opposite of whatever I think.

He wasn't impressed with General Clark when I supported him.

He does, however, like Barack.

[Colobo]

15. Viva Obama!

[BeatleBoot]

18. Go say hi to your good buddy ObamaAmerican in the above post.

Give him a warm welcome to DU.

[TwilightGardener]

19. Sometimes I agree with George Will. This is one of those times.