Watching Glenn Beck's expose` of Anita Dunn's philosophical allegiance to Mao Tse-tung last night, I had trouble getting as worked up as Beck did. I agree that the ideological loyalties of the Obama insiders are a deep concern, but I must be too jaded by years of familiarity with people like them in a variety of contexts to get real excited about any given Mao-spouter. She fits right in at any major university academic department or Democrat political confab. And she is exactly the kind of person that I feared we would have in an Obama administration, who has pulled heavily from the leftist academic (is that redundant?) community.
A couple of years ago I had a conversation with the director at one of my customers (a not-for-profit organization) who had just returned from a month in China. She was waxing poetic about Chinese society and how much more advanced it was than the US, and how efficiently and quickly the Chinese could complete major projects and industrial/cultural re-orientations (no kidding). Of course Bush was president then and by that yardstick everyone else was much better. Bill Maher has been taped saying much the same thing lately.
Kind of makes Anita Dunn seem almost mainstream, in a sick and dangerous kind of way. In large swaths of American society today, sadly there is noting really remarkable about Dunn or others like her.
