Recalling Warnings about Obama during the primaries

Amidst increasing criticism,  Obama holds his own.  Neither  nay-sayers nor the gates of hell will  prevail against him. 

This quote from a recent blog post,  by an exasperated Democrat, vexed over the Town Hall meetings chaos,  made me recall something said about Obama during primary season:

(from http://riverdaughter.wordpress.com/2009/08/15/what-happened-to-obama-nation/)

I recall an editorial, just after the Iowa caucuses , in which a Democrat said,  "I have no doubt that Obama will make a good president,  even an exemplary one.  However,  his time is not yet.  If he can accept a vice-presidency,  and bide his time, all will be well."  I remember a feeling of impatience had risen in me,  and I thought to myself,  "Another Clinton loving Baby Boomer,  who does not want to see the changing of the guard."  Now,  in this blog post,  I see the senitment resurrected.  However,  I do not for a minute believe in its correctness.

To blame Obama for the ignorance and fear-mongering is in bad faith.  We are in perilous times.  Anyone who thought that the Democrats would get into the White House,  and all would be a cheery return to the early days of Bill Clinton  - which were not smooth at all  -  does not understand how very different this decade is,  must be,  from the one which preceded it. 

That conflict is coming to a head,  may be the apex and reversal.  Already,  Obama is looking and sounding more like his old self from the campaign trail days.  The tone is sharper, the rhetoric soars into oratory once more, and the neck-tie comes off,  as he rolls up his sleeves.  Rather than being pathetic,  I believe this is fitting and proper.  The presidnet is no fool:  He knows how far off most Americans live and think from his ideology.  A quasi-socialism - in itself, needed in these times, and with Europe increasingly marching in lock-step toward an inevitable neo-socialism  -  pervades his thinking,  and resonates back to his student days.  But in this is his strength, and the fostering power.  Obama does not back down when pressed;  indeed,  he reasserts his ideas even more radically.  This is neither accidental nor trivial.  It is his method,  his modus operendum and his shrewdness.  

"How does the annoited One feel", asks a recent article, dripping with sarcasm and smugness,  "now that his blessed health care reform has hit a quagmire?".   Yes,  I know,  the journalist is thinking, "Ha, now he gets his come-uppance."  Nothing could  be further from the truth.  Obama sees,  he comprehends,  just how much the very antagonism is his best weapon,  his true advantage.   We are not living in jovial,  but in serious times.  Anyone who wanted a repeat of the Clinton '90s was set up long ago for a disppointment.  It is they, and not Obama,  who are in denial.  It is their logic, and not Obama's ,  which is the loser.