I haven't read his dissertation. Don't need to. He could've rewritten The General Theory, and he'd still be an idiot. Generally speaking, the moment you hear that someone was buddy-buddy with the libertarian movement's chief fascist skank great literary icon, Ayn Rand, you can assume the person hasn't got a clue about economics. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
I think that part of the problem with Obama is that he remains too high minded. Our opponents do not hesitate to throw dirt in the public's eye or our eyes, nor to grab a rock or a broken bottle and use them while those eyes are blinded. The intended audience, for better or worse, expects this and a refusal to employ such tactics in return results in being characterized as an "efite intellectual."
Any true thing that brings Greenspan and the beneficiaries of his actions low and results in his actions being seen for what they are is,IMHO, all to the good. But just getting 60 votes in the Democratic Senate Caucus and a Democrat in the White House will not be enough. Even should that happen, they will have to be convinced to redeem their souls and reform campaign finance in such a way that they are beholden to the voters, not to wealthy donors. Else there victory will only be a brief respite in the ongoing dissolution of the Constitution and popularly elected representative government.
Equally important is the discrediting of the motives and the ideology that has underpinned the entire neo-con movement since the late 60s. Given the inherently socially conservative mindset of so many US citizens that ideology, if not discredited, remains a ticking bomb awaiting the appropriate time to detonate for effect.
Electing Obama and more Democratic Senators is necessary, but far from sufficient. As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
