Posted on 09/04/2008 4:55:11 AM PDT by Libloather
Is Obama the Democrats' perfect stranger?
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER
WASHINGTON POST
Last Modified: Tuesday, September 2, 2008 at 6:35 a.m.
Barack Obama is an immensely talented man whose talents have been largely devoted to crafting, and chronicling, his own life. Not things. Not ideas. Not institutions. But himself.
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The air of unease at the Democratic convention last week was not just a result of the Clinton psychodrama. The deeper anxiety was that the party was nominating a man of many gifts but precious few accomplishments -- bearing even fewer witnesses.
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Eerily missing at the Democratic convention this year were people of stature who were seriously involved at some point in Obama's life standing up to say: I know Barack Obama. I've been with Barack Obama. We've toiled/endured together. You can trust him. I do.
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Who was there to speak about the real Barack Obama? His wife.
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So where are the colleagues? The buddies? The political or spiritual soul mates? His most important spiritual adviser and mentor was Jeremiah Wright. But he's out. Then there's William Ayers, with whom he served on a board. He's out. Where are the others? The oddity of the Democratic convention is that its central figure was the ultimate self-made man, a dazzling mysterious Gatsby. The palpable apprehension is that the anointed is a stranger -- a deeply engaging, elegant, brilliant stranger with whom the Democrats had a torrid affair. Having slowly woken up, they see the ring and wonder who exactly they married last night.
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Hiding from the law???
Barack Obama is an immensely talented man whose talents have been largely devoted to crafting, and chronicling, his own life. Not things. Not ideas. Not institutions. But himself.And it's not just Barry, it's Michelle, too. Guess what the focus of her vaunted Ivy League education was? HERSELF.
She went to some of the "best schools in America" and studied HERSELF.
Do you think I exaggerate? Her "papers" were all about her "experience" as a "Black woman" in the American education system.
Those two are the two biggest narcissists in America. Maybe in the world.
Good point. Either he has no friends or they are all liabilities.
So far there hasn’t been a single person in his life that would make anyone proud.
His friends are terrorists, communists, socialists, racists, Islamists and other anti-American radicals.
He can’t let them out of the closet.
And, he doesn’t have a public paper trail, either. What exists is being hidden.
They are so narcissistic that that make Bill Clinton look like a humble public servant.
“His friends are terrorists, communists, socialists, racists, Islamists and other anti-American radicals.”
They’re not friends. They’re co-conspirators.
I would have more respect for Obama if he had been a closet organizer for three years, at least then we would know he could hold a job in the private sector, and deliver value for his pay…
Glad somebody is asking these questions. The guy seems to have passed through life with no trace: no friends, not even any enemies, no writings, and with even his official records hidden. His autobiographies are carefully stage-managed creations that give his version of all the events in his life.
The big problem is that he has a past, but he knows it would be so unacceptable to most Americans that he really can’t even admit to it.
Obama’s friends?
Tony Rezko
William Ayers
Frank Marshall Davis
” The deeper anxiety was that the party was nominating a man of many gifts but precious few accomplishments “
misstatement, should say ‘one gift’ (giving teleprompted speeches)
” The deeper anxiety was that the party was nominating a man of many gifts but precious few accomplishments “
misstatement, should say ‘one gift’ (giving teleprompted speeches)
Tony Rezko
William Ayers
Frank Marshall Davis
You forgot Farakhan and his pastor! m I'm certain either of them would have been more than happy to give obammy a good reference...
On whose payroll was Obama when he was a, ah, Community Organizer? How much did he earn? No, I mean, how much was he paid?
I believe if Zer0prah hadn’t touted him so much more than a year ago, he would be getting no play whatsoever today. He probably believed what he said earlier about needing experience first, but her irrational exuberance brought him to the limelight too soon for his own good, and now he is the very definition of Cult Of Personality.
Hopefully he’ll both burn out AND fade away. (Apologies to Neil Young and Def Leppard).
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