"Swift and sweeping changes are almost always calamitous consequences of calamities--often of wars, sometimes of people determined to 'remake the world.' Wise voters--polls might be telling us there are more of them than Obama imagines--hanker for candidates whose principal promise is that they will do their best to muddle through without breaking too much crockery." Thus concludes George Will in a recent column, and I regard with sympathy the suggestion that the Hippocratic oath might well be applied to other fields of human endeavor besides the practice of medicine. But Will's comments are aimed at Barack Obama, his soaring eloquence and alleged messianic complex. Did not Will vote for The Current Occupant? He's wasting his time talking about Obama's talk. How about a column on what Bush has done? Does Will regard with favor America's mission to "remake" the modern MIddle East by invading Iraq and imposing democracy at the point of a gun? What about the big tax giveaways wed to big spending and--surprise!--the ballooning federal deficit?
The phrase about broken crockery is too quaint to describe the consequences of Team Bush's reckless incompetence.
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