Reply #34: The big finish is pretty shitty too--on the lines of "Whatever he does, it won't be enough." [View All]

[MADem]

I wouldn't call this guy a particular FOO--Friend Of Obama. He thinks he's Too Cool For School, though.

And should the president prevail on one or another of his proposals, he might find that acclaim, in this digital moment, can be ephemeral. Landmark legislative proposals, like hit singles, can come to seem interchangeable and dispensable. Creating a new health care framework, after more than a half-century of talking about it, would be a monumental achievement for any president, but even that might seem somehow small when viewed as only one in a series of competing storylines. What about carbon emissions? How about reining in Wall Street? Too much comes at us now, too devoid of context, for any one thing to matter as much as it probably should. In a society on shuffle, we’re always left to wonder what’s next.