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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Thank you! I’ve been a student of Thomas Sowell for many years, so if I have a good thought, it’s probably something he thought first :-).
Aren’t these the people who allegedly believe in a pregnant teenager’s right to privacy?
Aren’t they the ones who called Al Gore Iii’s DUI irrelevant to his dad’s Presidential effort? Oh yeah, we said that too.
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