{"id":5578,"date":"2010-01-28T11:19:22","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T16:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/?p=5578"},"modified":"2013-06-20T10:36:43","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T14:36:43","slug":"mark-toulouse-the-ironic-rhetoric-of-a-new-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2010\/01\/28\/mark-toulouse-the-ironic-rhetoric-of-a-new-president\/5578\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Toulouse: The Ironic Rhetoric of a New President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Using every syllable of his considerable rhetorical ability in his first State of the Union address, President Obama laid it on the line for a nation filled with skepticism. In some moments, he spoke with contrition about \u201cpolitical setbacks,\u201d some of which \u201cwere deserved.\u201d After speaking of massive, unheard of government financial deficits, he spoke openly of the growing \u201cdeficit of trust\u201d in government and its leaders. He admitted the growing doubt in the country that he can \u201cdeliver\u201d on his promise of \u201cchange\u201d Americans can \u201cbelieve in.\u201d But he also told Americans how \u201chopeful\u201d he was about the future.<\/p>\n<p>With skill he reminded hearers, ever so subtly, about the mess he inherited. He spoke of solutions, some already in place, others in process, still others being frustrated by Republican insistence \u201cthat sixty votes in the Senate are required to do any business at all in this town.\u201d Perhaps in an appeal to regain lost support among independent voters and, at the same time, connect with those on \u201cMain Street,\u201d Obama clearly named some villains accountable for many of the country\u2019s problems: those responsible for the \u201cbad behaviour on Wall Street,\u201d the politicians who \u201cobstruct every single bill just because they can,\u201d the \u201coutsized influence of lobbyists,\u201d the \u201cbanks that helped cause this crisis,\u201d and \u201cinsurance company abuses.\u201d He outlined steps for reform in all these circles of influence.\u00a0 He renewed his vows to end the war in Iraq, increase effectiveness in Afghanistan, and multiply sanctions in North Korea and Iran if they continue to pursue nuclear prowess. His speech hit most of the right notes on terrorism, thankfully without the civil and religious piety too often found in the rhetoric of President Bush.<\/p>\n<p>But one aspect of his populist rhetoric really left me cold\u2014gave me a chill, in fact. Though I don\u2019t think my response has anything to do with my living in Canada these days, I\u2019m confident my friends and colleagues here would conclude Obama\u2019s words were just \u201cmore of the same\u201d from the neighboring empire to the south. I must admit to being profoundly disappointed precisely because I still believe in the change he has promoted. While near the end of his speech he spoke of advancing \u201cthe common security and prosperity of all people\u201d in order \u201cto sustain a global recovery,\u201d the heart of this address shouted \u201cWe\u2019re Number One!<\/p>\n<p>I applaud Obama\u2019s concern for both \u201cenergy efficiency and clean energy,\u201d but his argument that the \u201cnation that leads the clean energy economy will be the nation that leads the global economy\u201c and that \u201cAmerica must be that nation\u201d places \u201cgreening\u201d at the service of a greedy desire to retain (regain?) control of the world\u2019s resources.\u00a0 What has American leadership of the global economy done for the world? What had it accomplished in Haiti prior to this devastating earthquake, for example? Studies like the one done by the World Institute for Development Economics Research at United Nations University indicate that the bottom 50 percent of the world\u2019s adults own around one percent of global wealth, while the world\u2019s richest one percent of adults owned approximately 40 percent of the world\u2019s resources. Or, as economist Branko Milanovic of the World Bank put it in 2002, &#8220;The top 10 percent of the US population has an aggregate income equal to income of the poorest 43 percent of people in the world.\u201d Yes, by all means, let\u2019s keep that going.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5581\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/files\/2010\/01\/post-toulouse2-obama.jpg\" alt=\"post-toulouse2-obama\" width=\"280\" height=\"300\" \/>It is doubly ironic that the core of the first State of the Union address from a black president would contain such a profoundly affirmative nod in the direction of good old US economic imperialism\u2014doubly ironic because, first, the history of slavery and racism is definitely connected to such classic American economic hubris, and, second, he made this particular case so clearly dependent on the rhetoric of Martin Luther King. \u201cHow long should we wait?\u201d Obama asked. \u201cHow long should America put its future on hold? &#8230; Well, I do not accept second place for the United States of America&#8230;.It\u2019s time to get serious about fixing the problems that are hampering our growth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Set over against Obama\u2019s rhetorical lament, I prefer King\u2019s use of it in 1965 in Montgomery: \u201cHow long will it take? &#8230; How long will justice be crucified?\u201d As he put it in his <em>Letter from Birmingham Jail<\/em>, \u201cjustice too long delayed is justice denied.&#8221; Or perhaps Isaiah\u2019s lament fits the irony better if the US continues on its path of economic domination: \u201cFor how long, O Lord? And [God] said: \u2018Until cities lie waste without inhabitant, and houses without people, and the land is utterly desolate.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark G. Toulouse is principal and professor of the history of Christianity at Emmanuel College of Victoria University in the University of Toronto.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It is doubly ironic that the core of the first State of the Union address from a black president would contain such a profoundly affirmative nod in the direction of good old US economic imperialism&#8230;first, the history of slavery and racism is definitely connected to such classic American economic hubris, and, second, he made this particular case so clearly dependent on the rhetoric of Martin Luther King.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2010\/01\/28\/mark-toulouse-the-ironic-rhetoric-of-a-new-president\/5578\/\" class=\"more\">More <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":16911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[321,337,1258,4370,7338],"class_list":["post-5578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-barack-obama","tag-economy","tag-mark-toulouse","tag-martin-luther-king-jr","tag-state-of-the-union","topics-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mark Toulouse: The Ironic Rhetoric of a New President | January 28, 2010 | Religion &amp; 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