Posted on 1/25/2009, 11:23:54 PM by mojito
Any politician who has taken on Bill and Hillary Clinton's national political machine and won should not be underestimated. Yet Republicans as well as many Democrats persist in underrating Barack Obama's electoral talents and, above all, his soaring political ambition.
His writerly mind, professorial bearing, and effortless self-control make it difficult to take his measure as a politician. He can seem cool, detached, unusually introspective. As a wag at the Financial Times put it, if John McCain's life story is the stuff of Hollywood movies, Obama's is like an off-Broadway play—it lacks action but is full of internal monologues. Raised in Hawaii and Indonesia, his father a Kenyan, his mother a sweet Midwestern atheist, Obama as a young man thought himself something of an outsider wherever he went. Smart and popular, he seemed to prefer to maintain his emotional distance, partly because he was confused about his own identity (as he explains in Dreams from My Father, the autobiography he published at age 33), and partly because he feared being trapped in places that were too small for his talents.
Eager to find himself by finding a community to which he could belong, he was struck, nonetheless, by the flaws or limits of every race, culture, and country he encountered. Unlike other intelligent human beings who have made the same discovery, Obama did not lower his expectations but decided that, just as he could and did choose to refashion his own identity, communities could do the same, with a little help.
(Excerpt) Read more at claremont.org ...
Be afraid of this man.
The essay is long, but very worthwhile.
“His writerly mind...” Couldn’t get past that fricking bullshit right there. He’s an EEO hire, big time.
Of course you are aware that HE did not write his autobiography, arent’ you? This piece is about 90% BS IMHO.
“Dr. Kesler is editor of Saving the Revolution: The Federalist Papers and the American Founding (Free Press, 1987), and co-editor, with William F. Buckley, Jr., of Keeping the Tablets: Modern American Conservative Thought (HarperCollins, 1988). He has written extensively on American constitutionalism and political thought, and his edition of The Federalist Papers (Signet Classics, 2003) is the best-selling edition in the country.”
Way to go!
writerly isn’t even a word. The “Author” if turning this in for a college essay would fail on that alone. Enough said.
Thanks for posting this. Will bump now and read later when I access Internet from PC rather than my Blackberry
Thanks for posting this. Will bump now and read later when I access Internet from PC rather than my Blackberry
Are you surprised?
Barack Obama - Narcissist or Merely Narcissistic?
http://www.globalpolitician.com/25109-barack-obama-elections
The best thing conservatives can do is back off and let him expose himself. This is not a far left nation by any stretch. Oppose his policies on principled and constitutional grounds, explain in detail why they are opposed.
The dems do not need the Repubs for passage of their agenda. Let them own it, 100%.
Their calls for ‘bipartisanship’ is merely a desire for political cover.
But he's so obsequious!! Professorial. Writerly. The author obviously identifies with Obama, and it's likely they're both narcissistic.
Cool? Look at the antagonistic way O handled the Poliico reporter. Picture Bush doing that, or Reagan. Picture Bush telling people not to listen to a leftwing pundit, like O warned against Rush. Observe the shirtsleeves signing of his first exec orders, mumbling and dithering and asking Craig to explain what HE i signing.
Whatever he's done before, it's pretty clear the writer's Got a Crush on Barack.
I read a raving review of a glorious man. At least that is how they portrayed him. To be feared, yes. But only because he is so magnificent and Republicans and critics need not bother.
Did anyone else get this from the article?
He might be a great conservative mind, but he seems enthralled with Obama.
I want someone to turn on the mic like in “A face in the crowd”.
There is a vast difference between what someone thinks he is doing and what he is really doing ...Obama the unifyer is already souring
I think this article was written several months ago.
Following "painterly" we can then see "writerly" as a refernce to the sense a writer brings to rendering a scene or object (or events and people) into words on paper (or pixels on a CRT).
Kind of an insult to a guy who has followers who imagine that he actually has the power to influence events and people.
I think I'll go LMAO!
Oh, one more thing, Obamasama's popularity dropped 15% from Wednesday through Friday, and it dropped another 12% from Saturday to Sunday.
That's a 27% drop in less than a week. I think that sets a new record.
This gives rise to another newly cast word "Popularly" which is the sense a voter brings to rendering a politician or his cronies in his mind as someone to trust or dump at the next election. A voter may well render that sense into pixels on vast numbers of CRTs.
writerly
adj.
Honestly, I'm not sure how reliable a source "thefreedictionary.com" is...but still. Would you like care to retract your statement? Submit your resignation? Give up your own "teaching" credentials, perhaps? I mean, you were very quick to hand out a failing grade, weren't you?
No.
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