Obama in Orbit

A column today in the NY Times by Mr. Roger Cohen (another deracinated Jew?) makes the case that Obama is the only candidate worthy of consideration because the 3rd world (especially Muslims) can "find itself" in him

This is the most ridiculous – even outrageous - column that Mr. Cohen has written recently (he also recently wrote that we all must subscribe to Al Jazeera - English, which presents, for Western audiences, a sanitized version of what it puts out in its Arabic service - the better to get first hand the rantings of Osama Bin Laden and his followers). By his logic, we must only elect a black (preferably Muslim) president from now on, to appease and to “bridge the chasm” between us and them. By his logic, the French did well in turning their government over to Petén and Laval after disturbing the “environment” by standing up to Nazi Germany. And, of course, the British would have done the right thing by turning to Oswald Mosley instead of that provocateur Churchill, after Chamberlain was found to be not docile enough to appease Hitler. This liberal notion that we have to engage the Muslims and show them contrition and understanding for the “sins of Bush” is at the very heart of why liberalism (at least its foreign policy) is, and will hopefully continue to be, a dying creed. All the liberal media pleas for “understanding”, “engagement” and “tolerance” of Muslim outrage will surely suffer the same fate as the earlier “progressive” pleas for understanding of and engagement with Communism (see, for example, the electoral fate of Henry Wallace and Adlai Stevenson).

It is the Muslims who must try to engage us and explain to us their outrageous and barbaric behavior, not the other way around.

It is precisely the “attributes” that this column praises in Barack Hussein Obama (“Kenyan father, a Kansan mother, an Indonesian stepfather, a childhood in Hawaii and Indonesia and impressionable experience of the Muslim world”) that make him unacceptable as a candidate for the presidency of the United States.