Talk about a dilemma. When the left and the hard left get in a cat fight, for whom do I root?
A Democrat whose name was invoked by President Barack Obama's spokesman in an attack on the party's liberal wing says the White House doesn't understand deep public frustration over the troubled economy.
Rep. Dennis Kucinich tells ABC's "Good Morning America" that press secretary Robert Gibbs shouldn't have attacked the "professional left."
Oh, well. I had a dream last night that I lived in a country in which we had Canadian-style health care, the Pentagon was eliminated, and Dennis Kucinich was president. With the kindness of friends, a few prescriptions and some serious therapy, I think I might recover in a year or two.
I take Gibbs' point, though. Those of the "professional left" wouldn't be happy unless they could have a world in which: 1) Nobody ever gets sick or hungry or old, 2) There is no such thing as evil people and, 3. The whole world is ruled by a benevolent dictator who will guarantee Nos. 1 and 2. They're the type of people who cheer on the 13-year-old American boy who plans to visit North Korea to persuade Kim Jong Il to build a "children's peace forest" in the DMZ, instead of sitting the lad down and explaining to him a thing or two about having to live in a world that doesn't live up to his "wishing it were so" expectations.
Me, I'd like to live in a world in which we are mostly left alone to pursue our own dreams, which include health and well-being, as long as we don't bother anybody else; this country is so strong and determined nobody would ever think of messing with us; and it doesn't matter who the president is since it is just an executive position devoted to administering policy rather than creating it. Those in the "professional left" aren't the only ones with silly, unrealistic dreams.
