OBLIGATORY ORWELL COMPARISON:

Welcome to Orwell’s world (John Pilger, 30 December 2009, New Statesman)

In Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell described a superstate, Oceania, whose language of war inverted lies that "passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past,' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past'."

Barack Obama is the leader of a contemporary Oceania.

The UR has finally made it--he's really in W's league.

Posted by Orrin Judd at December 30, 2009 6:40 AM