zascandil

El efecto Bush causa ceguera, cierta euforia colectiva y enajenación (ojalá que solo) pasajera de la capacidad de juicio y análisis de discursos políticos. La lista de síntomas puede seguir. La consecuencia, otro cheque en blanco. El final más posible de la historia, una decepción acompañada de descalabros prácticos de mayor envergadura.

La gente tenía tanta ganas de que se fuese este inútil que ahora es incapaz de escuchar y analizar lo que está diciendo su sustituto. O darse cuenta de que no está diciendo nada, y lo poco que dice contradice lo que decía que se proponía hacer. Yo sigo en mis trece. Y parece que no ando descaminado. Comentando el discurso de toma de posesión, Paul Krugman escribe:

Just to be clear, there wasn’t anything glaringly wrong with the address — although for those still hoping that Mr. Obama will lead the way to universal health care, it was disappointing that he spoke only of health care’s excessive cost, never once mentioning the plight of the uninsured and underinsured.

Un poquito más del artículo:

But my real problem with the speech, on matters economic, was its conventionality. In response to an unprecedented economic crisis — or, more accurately, a crisis whose only real precedent is the Great Depression — Mr. Obama did what people in Washington do when they want to sound serious: he spoke, more or less in the abstract, of the need to make hard choices and stand up to special interests.

That’s not enough. In fact, it’s not even right.

Thus, in his speech Mr. Obama attributed the economic crisis in part to “our collective failure to make hard choices and prepare the nation for a new age” — but I have no idea what he meant. This is, first and foremost, a crisis brought on by a runaway financial industry. And if we failed to rein in that industry, it wasn’t because Americans “collectively” refused to make hard choices; the American public had no idea what was going on, and the people who did know what was going on mostly thought deregulation was a great idea.

Nos la vamos a dar con este hombre. A ver dónde acaba todo esto.