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REPORTING FOR DUTY
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Nov
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Coming Soon: Obama’s Perestroika?
November 13, 2008 |
Gorbachev channels Founding Bloggers by claiming that America and the West are in need of our own Perestroika, and that Obama is the man for the job.
FORMER Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has welcomed Barack Obama’s victory, saying he would bring “perestroika” to the United States, it was reported today.
“I am very happy. Two or three years ago I said America needed perestroika, and this was greeted with cheers in the US,” Mr Gorbachev was quoted by ITAR-TASS news agency as saying, using the term for his 1980s liberal reforms that helped end the Cold War. [LINK]
Founding Bloggers thinks our constitution is just fine the way it is, but we saw this coming.
Incidentally, if you search Google News for this story, you will find that not one major outlet carried it. Is it bogus or is our media blacking it, out or ignoring it for some reason?
Also interesting is this related item. In October, the Chicago Tribune reported on a conference Gorbachev was holding under the banner of his think tank “World Political Forum”. Reportedly Gorby said the following:
The idea behind the ‘Washington consensus,’ that the government has no place in the state, was predominant. They got rid of the state—now the state is needed again. It is not clear how it will bottom out or how it will end, but my instinct tells me that the models of hyperconsumption were wrong. The question of transition to a new model of development is the No. 1 problem.”
One delegate said: “The world as we knew it is gone. We are approaching the tipping point toward change—there is less time than we thought.” Another thought the world resembled “collective madness.”
Strangely enough, St. Servolo Island, where the conference was held, today is an exquisite pink conference center filled with beautiful sculptures and facing Venice across a small lagoon. But it was once a psychiatric hospital: an appropriate place for considering such dire and dour predictions?
