Recently ran across this line from Rebecca West, written in the late 1940s with reference to the British Labour Party, but which reads just as accurately in the Age of Obama:
“The individualist is being looted by his own country as if it were an enemy.”
Well, Obama did once say that he considered his one experience in the private sector was like being “a spy behind enemy lines.”
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