The reason we have failure is because people enable it

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Nearly 18 months ago, Mark Morford wrote this article for the San Francisco Gate: "Is Obama an enlightened being?" An excerpt:

Here's where it gets gooey. Many spiritually advanced people I know (not coweringly religious, mind you, but deeply spiritual) identify Obama as a Lightworker, that rare kind of attuned being who has the ability to lead us not merely to new foreign policies or health care plans or whatnot, but who can actually help usher in a new way of being on the planet, of relating and connecting and engaging with this bizarre earthly experiment. These kinds of people actually help us evolve. They are philosophers and peacemakers of a very high order, and they speak not just to reason or emotion, but to the soul.

How's that working out anyhow? My sources say...not so good.

A more recent Morford work is the borderline offensive, sexually-obsessed "Please mount my hot blue alien." Apparently Avatar is a beautifully rendered fanservice film. I simply must see this film now! Well, save for the fact that these fetish pieces never cater to my fetishes.

Does Morford want to be taken seriously? Have I stumbled upon a humour columnist? Is this guy actually a 14 year old trapped in a man's body? I only have the answer to one of those questions.

Getting back to Obama, Morford is a true believer (in other words, a fool). In the column "Obama, the great disappointment?" he answers the title question with a resounding "no!" One of his main arguments for this lack of liberal failure on the part of the Obama administration is the forthcoming passage of the Health Insurance Reform bill.

A sobering thought came to mind about this bill which is about to become law: it defines my health insurance as a Cadillac plan. I'm lucky for the moment - I have a low deductible and pretty much everything I need medically is covered (with the realisation that I benefit from not being female, mind you). Meanwhile, I have loved ones who have to pay upwards of $2000 (that's a two followed by three zeros - I have not forgotten a decimal point) out of pocket before getting any benefit from the insurance company. The taxes imposed on "Cadillac" plans by this bill will likely force insurance companies to cut coverage to contain costs - that is, costs will be passed down to consumers in the form of increased deductibles.

And this is success, according to Morford? Perhaps he, like Obama and like most of our so-called representatives has been paid off by lobbyists. I'd have a dearth of disappointment too if large corporations were shoving money in my face in exchange for my conscience.