This story does make me feel a certain fondness for Obama.
"Austro" as in Rothbard and Wittgenstein, "Athenian" as in Aristotle and smashing-the-plutocracy.
About Roderick T. Long
The Empirical Me
I’m Roderick T. Long, Professor of Philosophy at Auburn University. I’m an Aristotelean/Wittgensteinian in philosophy and a left-libertarian market anarchist in social theory. (More about me here.) This blog, Austro-Athenian Empire, is a continuation of my earlier blog, archived here.
Except the part where he dodged behind a podium. Unless Bono’s even shorter than I thought, he would have dodged behind a lectern.
Bush’s policies were bad, but sometimes I get creeped out by these “Oh Bush got run over by a motorcycle haha” type jokes. I mean, generally he was similar to past U.S. presidents and many current congressmen; many of those people support torture and secret prisons too.
Bush is to the Left and Obama is to the Right, a person who embodies a bunch of their own qualities, but packaged in a form which inspires hatred.
Oh, Roderick…You’re so easy.