Terri
02-04-2009, 07:17 AM
Cynthia Grenier
Human Events
In his subtitle, James Delingpole just about tells the reader exactly what he’s going to find as he pages through this sprightly, flip new book, Welcome to Obamaland: “I Have Seen Your Future and It Doesn’t Work.” Author Delingpole is one of those clever, witty writers so often found in the island across the Atlantic.
His message after giving our present situation a hard look is succinct: “It sucks.” And does he have any comfort to help us poor American conservatives face the future? Alas, no. None at all. Mind you, he gives us a lot of pertinent comparisons with what it was like for him living with Tony Blair at the helm in his homeland. And optimistic Delingpole certainly is not.
He gets into the meat, as it were, of the case against Obamaland when he introduces Antonio Gramsci, whom he most accurately describes as “the influential Italian Marxist, who in the early twentieth century formed the devious -- and spot-on correct -- theory that in order to change society the Left would first have to control institutions by which consciousness is formed, perhaps above all, art and the communications industry.”
More (http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=30549 )
Human Events
In his subtitle, James Delingpole just about tells the reader exactly what he’s going to find as he pages through this sprightly, flip new book, Welcome to Obamaland: “I Have Seen Your Future and It Doesn’t Work.” Author Delingpole is one of those clever, witty writers so often found in the island across the Atlantic.
His message after giving our present situation a hard look is succinct: “It sucks.” And does he have any comfort to help us poor American conservatives face the future? Alas, no. None at all. Mind you, he gives us a lot of pertinent comparisons with what it was like for him living with Tony Blair at the helm in his homeland. And optimistic Delingpole certainly is not.
He gets into the meat, as it were, of the case against Obamaland when he introduces Antonio Gramsci, whom he most accurately describes as “the influential Italian Marxist, who in the early twentieth century formed the devious -- and spot-on correct -- theory that in order to change society the Left would first have to control institutions by which consciousness is formed, perhaps above all, art and the communications industry.”
More (http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=30549 )