horse of george

What I notice concerning liberal response to Georgian crisis, what becomes clear to me in the way they leap to the contention that Putin was provoked into an invasion by Western [ie Bush] aggression as concerns Kosovo and NATO expansionism etc - what one realises is that they would see the electing of Obama as a way of apologising to the world for all the bad things America has done over the last few years. Sounds like a juvenile absurdity, I know, but you boil down their response to the crisis and what I find are hurt liberal sensibilities looking for a cathartic purge of angst - in short, if Obama were president the world would apparently all of a sudden become much more reasonable. Some of this has to do with Obama being somewhat black and therefore well suited to their 'one world' utopianism [I tend to think racism stigmata less a factor in this regard, but could be wrong]; but much of it also has to do with the way Obama speaks their language, that is, softly reasonable, benignly scorning harsh judgments with faux complexities or supposed mystical interpretations of the world, high-minded and flushed by an idealism ultimately vague and self-servingly inclusive - as long of course as you buy in , rather petulant if you don't - something like a middling Parisian intellectual from the 50's after having sipped a bit too much white wine at a young communists soirée [reaching there a bit, no?]