Obama, Transsexuality, and The Professional Left
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By Lisa Jain Thompson
29 August, 2010
http://ts-si.org/global-warning/26614-obama-transsexuality-and-the-professional-left (http://ts-si.org/global-warning/26614-obama-transsexuality-and-the-professional-left)
It was the best of times; it was the worst of times, the best of all possible worlds and the worse. It was politics as usual on Planet Earth.
The President, an articulate speaker of prefabricated speeches, finds that words do not a new world make. The ship of state that is the greatest democracy in the history of world does not alter its course easily.
Inertia is a sticky wicket that only a handful of politicians can master. Washington, Lincoln, and, perhaps, Franklin Roosevelt (but he needed a depression, a world war, and four terms in office as his lever).
Recent presidents do not have that luxury, nor any desire for a depression or a war to occur on their watch. The best they can hope for is slight alterations in the direction the country is moving. There are no long term tidal waves in American politics. The new world is beyond our imagination. Our reality is always rougher hewn than we have anticipated. Man and human society is perfectible, but not perfect.