The most destructive gap for President Obama is not the Republican lead on the generic congressional ballot, or even a job disapproval that has surpassed approval -- it is the gap between aspiration and reality.
And here is a bit from T.S. Eliot's famous poem "The Hollow Men."
Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow
Between the conception And the creation Between the emotion And the response Falls the Shadow
The innate and fatal flaw of the 2008 Obama campaign's glittering presentation of a utopian dream is the simple fact that it can't square with the reality of a dangerous and complicated world. Anyway, you do remember, don't you, how that Eliot poem ends? Is that how this administration will end up? It currently looks discombobulated on all fronts and woefully lacking in real statesmanship. (Of course, if Iran gets the bomb, we might end with a bang. But I digress.)
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