Impertinence

[jhetley]

I have a twinge every time I read one of our foreign siblings congratulating us on doing the Right Thing. 

It's a little early to make that judgment.  I'll get back to you in a few years.

Also, you know, I don't presume to select the Right Thing for France or even Georgia.

We've chosen a different thing. 

"Different" doesn't have to contain a Right or Wrong.  "Right and Wrong" throws us back into that realm of demons that has clouded and soured the whole debate, clothing one side in the armor of righteousness and the other cast as spawn of Satan.  And which is which changes with who you ask.

I'm more than a little tired of Us Versus Them.  That's often a prelude to Us shitting on Them.

(Cat Versus Monkey, on the other hand, remains entertaining.)

Comments

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

After 8 years of GWB, your foreign siblings were all petrified at the thought of a possible President Palin in charge of the Big Red Button (for BRB substitute 'the economy' or 'war in Iraq' or anything similarly explosive). At least Obama's got half a chance of not disgracing himself instantly through crass ignorance.

As for the rest of it, time will tell, but hope is a good emotion for starters. Today it seems like the world is a more hopeful place.

Obama has inherited a pile of shit. Growing roses may be too much to hope for, but right now I'd be happy to see healthy cabbages.