Saturday, March 29, 2008
Reading Obama
Hugh Hewitt invited Mark Steyn to evaluate Barack Obama's self-narrated sound version of his book, Dreams Of My Father.
Want context? On Obama's hourly-updated explanations of his passing familiarity with "that man who was at our wedding and then we saw him again at our daughters' baptisms. Did you ever catch his name, Michelle dear?", here is Steyn:
Want context? On Obama's hourly-updated explanations of his passing familiarity with "that man who was at our wedding and then we saw him again at our daughters' baptisms. Did you ever catch his name, Michelle dear?", here is Steyn:
This shtick isn't helping. The headline on this story is "Obama: America Doesn't Get Rev. Wright." Really? More talk like that, and the issue will be whether it's Obama who doesn't get America.Power Line's John Hinderaker and Paul Mirengoff:
It strikes me that Barack Obama is uniquely unfit to be President, or, for that matter, to serve in the Senate.
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It's pretty clear that no form of Christianity other than black liberation theology had any chance of attracting Obama. Wright's sophomoric ranting was a perfect fit for Obama. It made him feel authentically black (see Shelby Steele on this subject), it fit the anti-American narrative Obama had picked up in the Ivy League, and it was the best church around for advancing Obama's career in Chicago politics. People have had religious experiences on considerably less than that.
