Who the heck is he anyway?

Obama's "image problem" is that he is a chameleon of no fixed identity (ironic in the age of "identity politics"). No one really knows where he started out from (African Muslim?; Indonesian Muslim?; Hawaii beach boy?; Kansas farm boy?) but he knows where he wants to go.

When he was selected by the self-selected "knowledge elite" (AKA supercilious snobs!) to join their ranks at Columbia and Harvard, he adopted their ways and their image. This was his entrée into the big time and his ticket to political stardom; as Joe Biden said: "clean" and not at all like the previous "African-American" contenders for national office.

To enter politics, he had to make a choice: Play the cool, almost-white, "leader"-type, ala Brooke, Powell and Rice (anathema to his academic support network), or play the upper-class home-boy from Chicago: a street cred covering over the supercilious snob. The choice was obvious. It took a few tries to get the street-cred makeover to at least a passable shade (no pun intended!) but he got there. African Americans will always have nagging doubt about whether he is "black enough", but what are their choices if they want to make the breakthrough to having an "African American" president at this time?

Now he needs to make another image change to "regular Joe" who happens to be an African American from Harvard. The next few months will determine how successful he is at it.

He needs coaching from that other chameleon, Bill Clinton (poor-white-trash to Yale and Oxford to "regular Joe", as required.). He wrote the book on this scam.

Kennedy rallies Dems for Obama as convention opens

What a coup for the Democrats! Instead of having to listen to two speeches by John Edwards (philanderer) and his wife (terminal cancer patient), we get Teddy representing both Democratic constituencies. So much more efficient and so... touching.

Where is the outrage?

Another lovely headline from Reuters: "Iraqi girl aborts suicide bombing, surrenders". It seems that nothing these Muslim savages do can ever quite outrage Liberal "conscience" - and certainly not the Muslim "Umma".

Day after day, the "insurgents" and "militants" in Iraq and other parts of the Muslim "community" carry out actions that should get people of conscience to be outraged and to ACT, but nothing ever happens. Not a word! How long will the Liberals (not to even mention Muslims around the world) continue to dignify these crazy Dead Enders (Rummy, we really miss you!) with benign - and even heroic - labels like "insurgents" and "militants"?

No one even bothers to ask the question: "Why are these fanatics continuing to do this?" They have no hope of gaining power (unless of course, we cut and run,) so what is the "noble" cause that these barbarians are trying to achieve that is worthy of being labelled "insurgent'? Why not truer labels like nihilists or terrorists? That is all they truly are. Nothing noble or admirable in their madness!

Yet we keep hearing daily about the (implied) nobility of their actions in fighting the American oppressors. Will the Arabs ever wake up and speak up? Will Western Liberals? Not a chance. Their great hope (both for the "insurgents" and their apologists) is that the Exotic Messiah and the other Democrats will gain power in America and "validate" their cause by leaving Iraq. Since the Iraqis have gotten their army into some sort of effective fighting shape, even America's withdrawing will probably not allow them to achieve their goals.

Yet no one ever says a word about their madness and their cruelty to their own people. Is it any wonder that Muslims all over the world are forever backward?

Is anyone paying attention?

Americans and Europeans have become so accustomed to Islamic intimidation in our supposedly free countries that no one seems to be paying attention to new outrages that seem to occur daily. Or is it perhaps just that the public is purposely not being informed by our supposedly freedom-loving media, who are even more terrified of Muslim violence than the general public?

A case in point is the cowardly action by Random House in "temporarily delaying " the publication of the book “The Jewel of Medina,” a novel by Sherry Jones about the child bride of the (so-called) prophet Muhammad. As the author says, she did not intend the novel to be anti-Islamic. “My intentions were to celebrate these great historical figures while dispelling misunderstandings about Islam” she says. But the West has become so supine in our collective fear that, as the Serbian publisher who withdrew the book says, publishing the book “could incite acts of violence by a small, radical segment.” Even the SERBS, those feral defenders of "Christian civilization", have been intimidated.

And NOT A WORD in the general Western press! The truth is, of course, that the "small, radical segment" is really the entity and the true face of Islam in the West. When will we wake up to the danger of having these savages in our countries in ever increasing numbers?