This stuff writes itself
What is the last safe prejudice? Against what, or whom, is it still reasonable to harbour an irrational dislike?
says Michael Gove.
Interestingly, both he and Aaronovitch today are claiming that Barack Obama is hawkish on defence and signed up to international democracy promotion. Which might be true - the guy is running for President after all - but Obama also looks like the kind of chap who can recognise a fucking lemon when he sees one, which means that for the purposes of the plans of the Decent Left he might as well be George Galloway. I wonder when they will realise this and turn against him?
Interesting that you perceive Gove to be a Decent despite the fact he's a Tory. Isn't one of the main features of Decency that despite professing socialism their policy agenda is exactly that of Dick Cheney?
ReplyDeleteGove is not part of the Decent Left, but I think you'd put him in a category of the Decent Right. Is this a reference to someone in particular?
ReplyDeleteOffensive comments on blogs denouncing politicians for sell-out centrist cowardice and then refuse to use their real names
Alan NTM Johnson had a similar piece on Comment is Free, along the lines of 'Obama will be really good because he will do the Decent foreign policy so people will have to stop saying we are cheerleaders for the Republicans, but he needs to realise that the surge worked so we need to stay in Iraq. p.s. same goes for Hilary'.
ReplyDeletehttp://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/alan_johnson/2008/02/obama_the_translatic_president.html
Interesting article but I think it's unwise of a Cabinet Minister to align himself so closely with a candidate from the Democrats - what if John McCain wins?
ReplyDeleteHmmm, Jonah "Liberal Fascism" Goldberg isn't of the Left and nor is Martin Amis (nor is the Likud Party in Israel), so I suppose it just goes to show that Decent politics has indeed moved beyond the old distinctions.
ReplyDelete(also, although Gove is a Tory, he is vvv definitely part of the Blair personality cult)
god, NTM is touching in his lunacy. I'd note that if one were to go by things they said on the campaign trail, the single least Decent president possible would be George W "We don't do nation-building" Bush.
ReplyDeleteMA (unlike Likud and JG) still *says* he's of the left though - isn't his line that he stayed as left-wing as ever, while the world around him went all Islamofascist-appeasey?
ReplyDeleteDidn't Barack Hussein Obama vote against the Iraq war? Oh, and he has a funny middle name, but does ANTMJ know this?
ReplyDeleteThe decent Tardis now goes forward as well as back. The inauguration of the next PotUS is just under a year away, and already ANTMJ knows all Obama's policies. More than Obama does, probably.
When President Obama tells us America is "the leader of the free world" and as such must "lead the world in battling immediate evils and promoting the ultimate good", who will just roll their eyes?
ReplyDeleteIs this a test? Silly question, of course it is. Anyway, me me me - I will just roll my eyes. I'd roll my eyes if President Jesse Jackson said his country was "the leader of the free world", or President Eugene Debs for that matter. Something to do with not being into imperial patriotism, let alone the imperial patriotism of a foreign country.
Wrapped in the audacity of hope, a great many inconvenient truths will become palatable.
Translation: being a White House fanboy will be so much mroe fashionable when there's a Democrat in there.
Yes, I think it's time to take a broader view of Decency; basically, if you don't have neo-cons you've got decents instead.
ReplyDeleteProbably irrelevant anyway as the unspeakable Clinton is highly likely to win the nomination. She's got more "experience" or something.
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