Corbett is a Genius at the Peekaboo Strategy

A U. Pitt student aims his creative writing skills at the Governor. The essay is well-written, and worth a click.

http://pittnews.com/newsstory/schaff-corbett-espouses-peekaboo-strategy/

Excerpts:

"People everywhere go about life with the notion that human history has exhausted its possible supply of brilliant, transformational political thinkers. These average people occupy coffee shops and workplaces wearing forlorn faces, thinking, “Well, having already seen the heavyweights like Plato, Machiavelli and Locke, what extra insight could we expect from our species? ... but a political mind has emerged who shines with every bit of promise that the greats must have held in their time. His name is Tom Corbett...

Gov. Corbett unleashed the brilliance last week in his commentary on Pennsylvania’s ongoing abortion-ultrasound controversy... Citing a litany of concerns ranging from constitutionality to basic decency, opposition to the bill has gained steam — that is, the steam was gaining until Corbett took the stage. Uttering a phrase destined for inscription beneath the governor’s future bronze bust in the state capitol, he squelched charges of government overreach, declaring, “I’m not making anybody watch, OK? Because you just have to close your eyes.” ... exhibiting extraordinary mental finesse, Gov. Corbett has managed to recreate an infant’s lack of object permanence within his own mind so as to extract and reframe the key lesson from the game of Peekaboo: If we close our eyes, all the problems in the world .. — can disappear....

The applications and implications of Gov. Corbett’s thesis far outpace any mortal’s list-making abilities, and this “Peekaboo strategy” is sure to attract decades of critique by academics at the most prestigious institutions. Our governor has proven a political genius of modern times, and with his so being I cannot wait to see what this man does next, even if that entails deepening his much-maligned cuts to education programs.

Don’t think too hard: If we close our eyes, we don’t have to see the young Pennsylvanians — and by extension, our future commonwealth and country — being shut out of a brighter tomorrow."