It’s Not Obama, It’s You: Landrieu’s explanation for president’s unpopularity positively Brechtian

The National Review ^ | November 1, 2014 | Jonah Goldberg

[Terry L Smith]

Ah done gone and did what I done did tah show d’at dah PAWG from dah chawklitt ci-tee ain’t dah one d’at I done did click!

No com ‘ere ah’s got tah kiss ya fool e’der!

[texas booster]

This is a seriously great article that deserves the full read, and the clicks to Nat'l Review. For example:

Other explanations are similar in their desire to place blame elsewhere. The fault lies not in Obama, but in ourselves. Let’s come back to this in a moment because I know exactly what you’re thinking right now. “Gosh, isn’t it about time Jonah quoted East German Communist playwright Bertolt Brecht?”

In Die Lösung Brecht famously quipped that if the people lose faith in the government it would be better if the government dissolved the people and elected another.

For progressives it’s always five minutes to Brecht-O-Clock. What I mean is this desire to fix the people, not the government always seems to be lurking behind liberalism. It was there when Woodrow Wilson said the first job of an educator is to make your children as unlike you as possible...