Houston - News - Barack Obama and MeYeah, I'm getting less and less impressed with the Savior of the Democratic Party. He's a hell of an orator - but...It was the year 2000 and I was a young hungry reporter in Chicago covering a young hungry state legislator.
It's not quite eight in the morning and Barack Obama is on the phone screaming at me. He liked the story I wrote about him a couple weeks ago, but not this garbage.
Months earlier, a reporter friend told me she overheard Obama call me an asshole at a political fund-raiser. Now here he is blasting me from hundreds of miles away for a story that just went online but hasn't yet hit local newsstands.
It's the first time I ever heard him yell, and I'm trembling as I set down the phone. I sit frozen at my desk for several minutes, stunned.
I can think of another orator that pretty much ruined his country and caused incalculable deaths in the process... Not that I'm comparing the two directly, but it's starting to look like the only real talent Obama has is a near blank-slate record that people can project what they want to believe on, and an eloquent manner.
That's not good enough.
This article... well, you read it and let me know what you think. It's kind of confirming what I already though - that Obama just won't cut it.
J.
Comments (2)
Jerry:
I had hoped that Obama's preacher was in the minority when it came to preaching about the state of race relations in America.
According to James Tarato's article in the his Best of the Web Column that isn't so.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120594190349248761.html?mod=Best+of+the+Web+Today
I thought it was ironic that Obama was campaigning on a platform of Hope and Change all the time his pastor and mentor was preaching sermons on Preserving the Hate. Looks like I was wrong; there was no irony at all, Obama's just being a typical politician whose only deep covictions involve winning the next election.
Just like Hillary, Obama's a perfect mirror, showing each audience the candidate it wants to see and telling them what they want to hear.
Too bad that doesn't work anymore.
otpu
Posted by otpu | March 19, 2008 11:31 PM
Posted on March 19, 2008 23:31
I've been aware of that for a while, John. He's adept at being a blank screen, which others project their fantasies on.
But this 'liberation theology' stuff - it's perverse and worrisome. No wonder the integration of the races seems to have stalled out - there's some who NEED to have a hard division to maintain their power.
J.
Posted by JLawson | March 20, 2008 7:22 AM
Posted on March 20, 2008 07:22