It's amazing this woman is a liberal! She is unique among her group. In her most recent article in Salon.com, Camille Paglia admits to listening (and LEARNING FROM) Rush Limbaugh, and is taking the President to task for "his flacks, fixers and goons -- his posse of smirky smart alecks and provincial rubes". She lists several "embarrassing series of flubs", including the stimulus package, the Geithner handling of the bank bailout plan, and the most recent reception of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. On that note, she comments,
"Don't they read the "Iliad" anymore in the Ivy League? Check that out for the all-important ritual of gift giving, which has cemented alliances around the world for 5,000 years."Paglia concludes this portion of her article suggesting,
"President Obama should yank the reins and get his staff's noses out of slash-and-burn petty politics. His own dignity and prestige are on the line. If he wants a second term, he needs to project a calmer perspective about the eternal reality of vociferous opposition, which is built into our democratic system. Right now, the White House is starting to look like Raphael's scathing portrait of a pampered, passive Pope Leo X and his materialistic cardinals -- one of the first examples of an artist sending a secret, sardonic message to posterity. Do those shifty, beady-eyed guys needing a shave remind you of anyone? Yes, it's bare-knuckles Chicago pugilism, transplanted to Washington. The charitably well-meaning but hopelessly extravagant Leo X, by the way, managed to mishandle the birth of the Protestant Reformation, which permanently split Christianity."