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• Thursday, November 20, 2008 06:24 AM

  Because 'early swooners' are an immature lot

  So why am I mainly happy with the way Obama's handled the presidential transition, when so many early swooners, especially in the blogosphere and mainstream media, are so critical?

  Because the early swooners are by and large political purists, and too politically naive - with grandiose expectations of p9oliticos. Which, in the end, Obama is - never mind the window dressing.

  I too was a latecomer, and I often held Obama's early airy- fairy speeches - which seemed more suited to the oratory stratosphere- as deficient. They appealed too much to emotions and not enough to practicalities. Thus, his early floaty oratory grabbed the early swooning immature purists.

  The mostly initial cynics like me were gradually won over as we watched him make his speechifying more concrete, and especially his responses in the debates.

  We now behold an even more pragmatic politician especially after his appointement of Rahm as CoS and now Eric Holder as AG. Eric deserves this more than anything, and I hope no repukes give him any grief in his confirmation hearings. He is the son of proud Barbadian parents who now must be bursting with pride, as indeed all Bajans are.

  The apppointment of Hillary as Secretary of State would top off this supremely competent Obama cabinet and staff. It is the right move to make, and Hillary deserves it, never mind the scraming meemies and purist whiners who saturate the Left blogosphere. Or is it, bloviosphere?

  I hope these early swooner whiners will not punk out now when the Obama administration needs their energy the most. That would be a tragedy.

  —droogoy Read droogoy's other letters
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