Now Repeat After Me…We’re Electing a President, Not a Messiah

July 27, 2008 by · Comments Off on Now Repeat After Me…We’re Electing a President, Not a Messiah
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Government of the Rich

So Barack Obama is tacking to starboard. That’s steering to the right for you landlubbers. But as a politician who lives next to those inland seas we call the Great Lakes, he must have seen sailors do this hundreds of times. He’s already tacked to the port or the left side. Now it’s time to tack to the right or the starboard side. Paradoxically, that’s how you sail in a “straight” line and end up arriving at your destination.

Let’s remember that Barack Obama is a South Side Chicago politician. Veering to the right after starting out on the left is a time honored Windy City tradition.

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