Standing On Daddy’s Shoulders
from MoDowd: http://thechronicleherald.ca/thenovascotian/49877-oedipus-politics-standing-daddy-s-shoulders
American politics bristles with Oedipal drama.
Sons struggling to live up to fathers. Sons striving to outdo fathers. Sons scheming to avenge fathers. Sons burning to one-up fathers. Sons yearning to impress fathers who vanished early on. Sons leaning on fathers. Sons using fathers as reverse-play books . . .
Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich and Barack Obama had to climb the ladder without the huge benefit that JFK, W., Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman Jr. had — the obsessive support of wealthy and well-connected dads.
While his father was often described as a force of nature, Mitt is more like a sea of Styrofoam . . .
Does Mitt Romney cringe a bit when he accuses the first African-American president of trying to create "an entitlement society," raising the spectre of welfare lines in the inner cities, given that his father was such a bold champion of civil rights and helping solve racial problems in the inner cities that it got him in trouble with Mormon elders?
Does he wonder what his dad, who spoke out against the futility of an earlier misguided war, would think of his assertion that Obama’s move to end the Iraq war represented an "astonishing failure"?
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