tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post3339178951104153617..comments2024-03-18T14:34:31.684-05:00Comments on Horizons: Our Organizer-in-Chief does it his way on urban issuesNancy LeTourneauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12614317154146836694noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-39458399914062894422012-08-02T22:53:51.204-05:002012-08-02T22:53:51.204-05:00He's always got his eye on the long game. It&...He's always got his eye on the long game. It's awesome.Suburban Correspondenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11488916572135296650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-82436373791425969982012-08-02T10:40:00.215-05:002012-08-02T10:40:00.215-05:00I have a soft spot for West because I have found h...I have a soft spot for West because I have found him so personally engaging and also because he has thoroughly posited liberation as a theological question with political, social, and economic dimensions rather than the other way around. I can go with that. Unfortunately, he has lately confused being a "prophetic voice" with "being a petulant pain in the ass." It's a disappointment.<br /><br />But yes, there is a lot to be really happy about. Happiness is the most radical program, so the more we cultivate it the better everything is.Billhttp://freeandeasywandering.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-53274612584895536822012-08-02T09:45:15.205-05:002012-08-02T09:45:15.205-05:00Reading about all of this makes me more excited ab...Reading about all of this makes me more excited about Obama's work than just about anything I've seen so far. <br /><br />And so I'll save my more childish response for below-the-line...take THAT Cornell West and Tavis Smiley. All they're doing these days is screaming that something needs to be done. Meanwhile, the President is showing how that actually happens.Nancy LeTourneauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12614317154146836694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-32906554783391003602012-08-02T09:38:19.959-05:002012-08-02T09:38:19.959-05:00Great point about looking at right-wing sites to s...Great point about looking at right-wing sites to see what they're complaining about. The policy example you give is heartening.<br /><br />The other point that change happens from the bottom up but reporting happens from the top down is really important. I think David Axelrod made a glowing comment about Burke early in the Administration (or maybe in the transition) and many took it to mean Obama was really a "conservative." Rather, Burke offered a theory of historical change that actually worked. Ideas from on high--i.e., Jacobinism--doesn't work. Incremental bits based on what is already there does.<br /><br />Where Obama differs from Burke is that while Burke had a visceral dislike of change Obama embraces it.Billhttp://freeandeasywandering.com/noreply@blogger.com