Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Barone on Obama's Faulty Liberalism
The "Lyrical Left", Contentions, August 26, 2009. "Michael Barone has an article in today’s Washington Examiner that is—like all he writes—thought-provoking and worthy of a read. Titled 'Obama’s lyrical Left struggles with liberalism,' it argues that Obama is a member of the 'lyrical Left'—basically, a dove. But it wasn’t a dovish foreign policy that made the state big, argues Barone: it was the undovish liberals like Wilson and FDR who fought wars, because wars grow the state. As Barone concludes, 'A big-government president, Obama is learning, needs to be a war president first.' Well, maybe."
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Liberalism,
Michael Barone,
Obama,
US Foreign Policy,
US Politics
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