PERHAPS WE HAVE NOT YET BEGUN TO WRITE THE HISTORY OF THIS PRESIDENCY OR THIS TIME IN AMERICAN AFFAIRS. IN YEARS TO COME WE MAY LOOK BACK ON THE COMING PERIOD OF FUNDAMENTAL ALTERATION OF THE WHOLE AMERICAN ENTERPRISE IN SOMEWHAT THE SAME WAY RUSSIANS LOOK BACK ON THE LAST YEARS OF MR GORBACHEV. LIKE HIM, MR OBAMA MAY BE PRESIDING SHORTLY OVER A FLOOD HE WILL BE IN THE END POWERLESS TO PREVENT, AND IN FACT HE MAY ULTIMATELY BE IDENTIFIED AND CREDITED (AND BLAMED) BY DIVERSE OTHERS FOR WHAT IS JUST NOW BEGINNING TO EMERGE. MORE I THINK THE BLAME WILL TRULY RESIDE IN THE SELFISH OLIGARCHY AND THE CREDIT IN THE PEOPLE, MOSTLY YOUNG, WHO WERE JUST A LITTLE TOO WELL EDUCATED AND HAD JUST A LITTLE TOO MUCH EXPECTATION OF CHANGE, WHEN CHANGE WAS SO CLEARLY NECESSARY, TO BE QUIETED.
JUSTICE NOT PEACE IS THE ONLY GOAL OF A LEGITIMATE SOCIETY, NOW AS ALWAYS, AND JUSTICE HAS BEEN ILL SERVED BY THIS AMERICAN FORM OF CAPITALISM AND CORPORATE RULE.
I AM NOT AT ALL CONVINCED THAT MR OBAMA IS CAPABLE OF SUCH A RADICAL SHIFT IN ACTION HIMSELF BUT I AM CONVINCED THAT HE WILL IN THE END BE POWERLESS TO OPPOSE IT AND MAY YET BECOME ITS (RELUCTANT) HERO.
