Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Obama as a loved one


As Bill Katz points out in Urgent Agenda the bloom is comming off the rose to a small degree among members of the Obama Lovers of The Left. From Richard Cohen we have these words.

Barack Obama's trip to Copenhagen to pitch Chicago for the Olympics would have been a dumb move whatever the outcome.......The first, and to my mind most important, is whether Obama knows who he is.

This business of self-knowledge is no minor issue. It bears greatly on the single most crucial issue facing this young and untested president: Afghanistan. Already, we have his choice for Afghanistan commander, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, taking the measure of his commander in chief and publicly telling him what to do. This MacArthuresque star turn called for a Trumanesque response, but Obama offered nothing of the kind. Instead, he used McChrystal as a prop, adding a bit of four-star gravitas to that silly trip to Copenhagen by having the general meet with him there.

This is the president we now have: He inspires lots of affection but not a lot of awe.


Why do I keep reading this? Why do so many on the Left and the Right keeping saying it? What has he done to inspire affection?

What has he done to rate anything but rank dismissal as an empty suit who demands unequal treatment?

Do they mean because he is a self-identified black man?

Isn't this the same racism that assumed that black children couldn't learn at the same level as white children and lowered the level in our K-12 schools? That, of course, was pure nonsense but it led to the destruction of the public schools.

Of course if you believe that blacks can perform as well as whites or yellows or reds then you have to also understand that they can be just as wrong and just as ignorant.

It is called equal treatment, Too bad too many of us don't practice it.

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