Has this country completely lost it? Are we seriously considering this son of a foreign-student groupie (to put it kindly) and a Kenyan goatherd (not the greatest role model having, apparently, abandoned his family to return to the hills of Kenya under mysterious and unexplored circumstances), with a hidden Muslim background: his father AND stepfather; his grandmother in Kenya; his schooling in Indonesia; who knows what else.
According to the adulatory article in the Sunday NY Times (November 4, 2007), "Obama's supporters believe that his life story and the angle of vision it affords him hold out the possibility of curing the harm they would say we have done to ourselves ...."; also "The great project of the foreign-policy world in the last few years has been to think through a
'post-post-9/11 strategy,' ..." the bottom line of which is the standard Carterite, left-liberal, rubbish about how we must see the world through the eyes of others; that is, in a nut-shell, subvert America's interests and safety, if necessary, to make others like us. It was this post-Viet Nam mentality, as practiced by the 1st post-Viet Nam president, Carter, that gave us the Ayatollahs in Iran and all their progeny. The devil to these foreign policy establishment "experts", who look at Obama with dewy eyes, is of course Bush and his followers who say morally unambiguous things like "you are with us or you are against us". To the nuancers , it is America's responsibility to make nice with these people rather than the other way around (after all, they bombed us first). Even the Bushies have fallen for this idiocy, to some extent, by their pathetic attempts to win the "hearts and minds" of Muslims (the Karen Hughes fiasco).
As always, the liberal "intelligentsia" let their ideology (wishful thinking, actually) replace common sense; thus Obama, with his colorful "back-story", is the new Great White Hope (pun intended) to bring about the longed-for Nirvana: The Brotherhood Of Man (maybe we need a new, more gender neutral, phrase now). Never mind the murkiness of the back-story; the idiocy and outright danger of Islam, to which he may still be sympathetic to an unknown extent. Compared to Obama, the "unclean" Sharpton may be the more reliable choice for a "president of color" that the liberals (and other deluded, well-meaning, white Americans) long for. At least we know what he wants out of it: what every self-respecting street hustler wants; money, power and self-aggrandizement.
Ultimately, one has to believe in the good sense (liberals might say "prejudice") of the great American white majority in keeping this "icon" out of any position of power in this country.
A plague on the politics of the state of Illinois for foisting this ivy league hustler on the nation.
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