...I'm Back! (For those who need further explanation it is one of the key suspenseful moments in all of movies where Randy's alien abductors are about to level all of the cities on Earth and he flies his jet fighter into the heart of the alien central command spacecraft.) Does that make it clear?
For the past few months I have been on hiatus playing with the grandkids, watching political races and elections, working for candidates that I think might have the right idea, and defending Brett Favre, and now I am refreshed and ready to start writing again. I am going to start slow, though, with just a brief comment about my favorite radio station, the completely non-partisan National Public Radio. I will spend the next few weeks writing variations on this theme.
This morning Steve Inskeep was interviewing writer Anand Giridharadas, who has written a book about India entitled: 'India Calling: The New Land of Opportunity.' I am sure this is a fine book but that is not what this blog is about. About 5 minutes into the interview, actually 5 minutes and 24 seconds, Mr. Giridharas made the comment that the image of India today is incredible but that image might be problematic. With pride in his voice Mr. Inskeep then referred to the United States and those who thought it was in decline, "...we shouldn't miss the fact that it is still the greatest economy the world has ever seen."
Let's think about Mr. Inskeep's comment. The first thing that popped into my mind when I heard it was here was a guy who in the past has been ultra liberal in his commentaries, and he works for an ultra liberal organization, and he says something like that off the top of his head. One might expect him to say that there is no hope, the United States is falling behind the rest of the world, we need to drastically change the way we have been doing business because it isn't working - all that stuff we hear over and over from Ms. Pelosi and Mr. Obama and the rest of the super-left. So what happened? Did the parallel universe suddenly diagonally park? Will Rush Limbaugh start talking about distribution of wealth to create jobs?
I have a hypothesis. Deep down inside in a liberal's heart of hearts lies a proud patriot. There, I said it. No lightening strikes so in the next few days I am going to think out loud about this phenomena. I will call it the red, white and blue syndrome, and it is the wall that will keep big government out of our lives, and has for the past couple of centuries.
