Maggie's Farm

I had a very pleasant lunch and visit with our Roger de Hauteville (Roger ll of Sicily - not Roger l) and the heir, the young Prince of Sicily, this afternoon.

Roger knows a thing or two about big city politics (and many other things), and he made a strong case that Obama is relatively non-ideological; that he is a typical self-important ward-heeler who got "nailed to the bow of a big ship," anointed to figure-head the plundering pirate ship which is the Dem party.

In other words, it's all about getting jobs and money to your friends, and winning votes with jobs and money until nobody else can compete. Local one-party Chicago politics, gone national. O's "We won" just means "We got the money." The Lefty gestures are just to keep the Left on board. He also opined that the Tea Parties are "cute," but miss the larger political point of what is going on. I tend to agree with that.

He also asserted that Hillary, with her "Stalinist heart," would have been far scarier.

I am not entirely convinced by his whole thesis, but I hope he will condense what he said to me today for us to read. He said he already posted it under Welcome to the Plunderdome, but he didn't. Or maybe he did - but not in his own words.