Obama's Attack on the Supreme Court: I Have Been in This Movie Before

Obama's Attack on the Supreme Court: I Have Been in This Movie Before

Joel Pollack gives us some advice.

Obama is now attempting to manufacture, and harness, public outrage along fault lines of race, class, gender, and so on. But the assault on the rule of law represented by the Occupy movement and the Trayvon Martin protests may be as destructive of Obama’s prospects as it was of [South African President] Mbeki’s.

There is a political alternative in 2012, however timid, and it is the best--perhaps the only--chance to prevent America’s political and economic decline.