It's Hammerin' Time
Via Babalu Blog, I found this reference to a Charles Krauthammer (appropriate name - he HAMMERS Obama well) column. In it:
I don't particularly like or dislike Obama. I think he's too inexperienced, and too sure of himself (a trait often found in those from Ivy League universities - they substitute a self-aware surety - "do you know who I am? Do you realize what prestigious institutions I have attended?" for the willingness to learn, post-college). He is WAY over-sensitive to slights; he is quite proud.
These traits are not fatal; they will often wear away as the person gains experience and life lessons. But, they are not what I want in a president.
Obama lacks the ability to laugh at himself. He cannot accept that opposition to his ideas can be caused by anything by nefarious forces - which, after all, is a good description of Hillary's people. He is Nixonian - surrounded by enemies. And, for extra fun, he is (sorta) Black. I am one of the many who ask, why Black? Why not Bi-racial, a perfectly good term?
By defining himself as Black, he gains the position of having his enemies portrayed as the forces of evil - for, other than Evil, who can be against the Sainted Black Man?
Obama cites John Kennedy meeting Nikita Khrushchev as another example of what he wants to emulate. Really? That Vienna summit of a young, inexperienced, untested American president was disastrous, emboldening Khrushchev to push Kennedy on Berlin -- and then nearly fatally in Cuba, leading almost directly to the Cuban missile crisis. Is that the precedent Obama aspires to follow?Yeah, it's like that.
I don't particularly like or dislike Obama. I think he's too inexperienced, and too sure of himself (a trait often found in those from Ivy League universities - they substitute a self-aware surety - "do you know who I am? Do you realize what prestigious institutions I have attended?" for the willingness to learn, post-college). He is WAY over-sensitive to slights; he is quite proud.
These traits are not fatal; they will often wear away as the person gains experience and life lessons. But, they are not what I want in a president.
Obama lacks the ability to laugh at himself. He cannot accept that opposition to his ideas can be caused by anything by nefarious forces - which, after all, is a good description of Hillary's people. He is Nixonian - surrounded by enemies. And, for extra fun, he is (sorta) Black. I am one of the many who ask, why Black? Why not Bi-racial, a perfectly good term?
By defining himself as Black, he gains the position of having his enemies portrayed as the forces of evil - for, other than Evil, who can be against the Sainted Black Man?
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