Yesterday, I commented on a statement made by Micheletti. Asked what he would do about Washington’s cut-off of aid, he said, “We will not back down. Dignity does not have a price in our country.”

Fascinatingly, that word “dignity” rang familiar with a reader of ours. He remembered something that Obama and his people said during the presidential campaign. You will find it in The American Prospect, here. They hated Bush’s democracy thrust — hated it. (Probably not so much because they hated democracy as because they hated Bush. If they liked chocolate ice cream, and Bush embraced it, chocolate ice cream would probably taste sour in their mouths.) Here is the relevant bit from The American Prospect:

I [the author of the piece] spoke at length with Obama’s foreign-policy brain trust, the advisers who will craft and implement a new global strategy if he wins the nomination and the general election. They envision a doctrine that first ends the politics of fear and then moves beyond a hollow, sloganeering “democracy promotion” agenda in favor of “dignity promotion” . . .

Dignity, huh? Now think of Micheletti’s statement. Amazing — almost a poetic twist of history.

By the way, what does “the politics of fear” mean, at least in the above context? Warning against terrorism and Islamofascism? Are terrorism and Islamofascism any less of a problem now that our government says “man-caused disaster,” not terrorism, or “overseas contingency operations” instead of War on Terror?

P.S. The above-mentioned reader, who remembered “dignity,” is Jeff Dobbs, and he has blogged about this matter here.