Monday 29 September 2008

Can Obama bring a new type of polititics?

The evidence against is considerable:

1. His campaign
- dirty enough to be fundamentally old school

2. His past
- the manner of his rise to the State Senate in Chicago suggests a man very comfortable with realpolitik

BUT . . .

It is possible to argue that the only way he could get to where he has is by respecting the norms of the current corrupt system.

Alternatively . . .

Is a new politics even possible? Or is asking for it like asking for a new human nature?

p.s. The bail-out has failed. What happens now? How bad does this get? Do we all die imminently?

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