Posted on 08/11/2008 6:58:23 PM PDT by jazusamo
Many years ago, when I was a college student, I took a course from John Kenneth Galbraith. On the first day of class, Professor Galbraith gave a brilliant opening lecture, after which the students gave him a standing ovation.
Galbraith kept on giving brilliant opening lectures the whole semester. But, instead of standing ovations, there were now dwindling numbers of students and some of them got up and walked out in the middle of his lectures.
Galbraith never got beyond the glittering generalities that marked his first lecture. After a while, the students got tired of not getting any real substance.
Senator Barack Obama's campaign this year reminds me very much of that course from Professor Galbraith. Many people were ecstatic during the early primaries, as each state's voters heard his glittering generalities for the first time.
The media loved the novelty of a black candidate with a real chance to become president, and his left-wing vision of the world was largely their vision as well. There was a veritable media honeymoon for Obama.
There was outrage in the mainstream media when ABC anchor man Charles Gibson asked Obama a serious question about the economic effects of a capital gains tax. Who interrupts honeymooners to talk economics?
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I'd volunteer to help a Sowell campaign, and drive voters to polls to vote for him. But instead, I'm stuck having to vote for McCain, who is so inferior.
I thought Black Rednecks and White Liberals was a superb history book:
I've said that many times over the years.
excellent
But Sowell is NOT a American Black....he, like me, is an American.
I thought that “Vision of the Annointed” was an absolute couldn’t put it down, page turner.
“Basic Economics” is amazing—and a much needed—book. Make sure you don’t get the first edition however, there’s numerous grammatical errors in the 1st ed.
No, you are confusing Gilbreth with Galbraith, the names are similar but the Gilbreths were American and Galbraith grew up in Canada.
“I thought that “Vision of the Annointed” was an absolute couldn’t put it down, page turner.”
Ditto. An excellent read.
Along with Bo Snerdley, he’s certified black enough to criticize Barack Obama.
LOL. Obama reminds me of a fruit basket we received last Christmas. It was the perfect looking basket of fruit, until we opened it. The bananas were bland and tasteless, the oranges were mushy and the grapes moldy underneath. I think that pretty much sums him up.
At first I thought this was going to be about someone else.
That's the key for the media - they love him because he's a radical leftist. His being part African is just gravy.
I adored “The Quest for Cosmic Justice” (recommended by another FReeper), and thought it was one of the best explanations of the difference between conservatives and liberals I have EVER read.
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“Sowell should be the first American Black President.”
I am casting the first vote.
Thank you for clearing up my thinking! (Well, a LITTLE bit of it, anyway!)
I believe you nailed it on the enemedias love for Obama.
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