GET ANGRIER! El consejo a Obama en el debate y la campaña

Si yo pudiera darle un consejo a Obama, recurriría al que le dio en la columna de Maureen Dowd Aaron Sorkin a través del personaje del presidente en West Wing, Jed Barlet (que protagonizó Martin Sheen). Sorkin escribe un diálogo entre Obama y Barlet que comienza cuando el candidato demócrata a la presidencia llega a la casa de Barlet a pedirle consejo. Luego de un intercambio en el que se hace evidente la frustración del presidente ficticio con el candidato real por estar dejando que McCain le esté ganando, Obama le pregunta qué haría él en su lugar y Barlet responde:

GET ANGRIER! Call them liars, because that’s what they are. Sarah Palin didn’t say “thanks but no thanks” to the Bridge to Nowhere. She just said “Thanks.” You were raised by a single mother on food stamps — where does a guy with eight houses who was legacied into Annapolis get off calling you an elitist? And by the way, if you do nothing else, take that word back. Elite is a good word, it means well above average. I’d ask them what their problem is with excellence. While you’re at it, I want the word “patriot” back. McCain can say that the transcendent issue of our time is the spread of Islamic fanaticism or he can choose a running mate who doesn’t know the Bush doctrine from the Monroe Doctrine, but he can’t do both at the same time and call it patriotic. They have to lie — the truth isn’t their friend right now. Get angry. Mock them mercilessly; they’ve earned it. McCain decried agents of intolerance, then chose a running mate who had to ask if she was allowed to ban books from a public library. It’s not bad enough she thinks the planet Earth was created in six days 6,000 years ago complete with a man, a woman and a talking snake, she wants schools to teach the rest of our kids to deny geology, anthropology, archaeology and common sense too? It’s not bad enough she’s forcing her own daughter into a loveless marriage to a teenage hood, she wants the rest of us to guide our daughters in that direction too? It’s not enough that a woman shouldn’t have the right to choose, it should be the law of the land that she has to carry and deliver her rapist’s baby too? I don’t know whether or not Governor Palin has the tenacity of a pit bull, but I know for sure she’s got the qualifications of one. And you’re worried about seeming angry? You could eat their lunch, make them cry and tell their mamas about it and God himself would call it restrained. There are times when you are simply required to be impolite...

Sorkin expresa la frustración de muchos liberales y demócratas con Obama. Lo triste es que me temo que Obama va una vez más a ser "profesorial" y a evitar aparecer con coraje para que no digan que es del "angry left". Peor aún, me temo que va a rendirse al "bailout" a nombre del supuesto acuerdo bipartita y McCain puede que aparezca como el defensor de los derechos de los contribuyentes en una de sus tretas rovianas. Dios quiera me equivoque.