Posted on 01/16/2009 10:50:43 AM PST by mojito
A leader is a blank slate for the projection of all our hopes, Barack Obama perhaps more so than most. To some he symbolizes an end to racism, to some an end to partisan politics, to some a salve for economic wounds.
To me, he cuts a symbolic figure as our first cosmopolitan president. He is, that is, a citizen of the world. I project cosmopolitanism onto Obama because of his background: The Kansan mother and Kenyan father, the upbringing in Hawaii and Indonesia. His political birth took place in Chicago. But to me Obama is a global citizen in the most reassuring way.
Before the election, Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan lamented that both Obama and John McCain symbolized the "end of placeness." Neither could be strongly identified as "from" a specific location. McCain because, as a navy brat and then a service member, he moved around a lot before finally settling in Arizona.
Neither of them are rooted to their terroir in the way of America's old-time politicians from the Mississippi Delta or Irish Boston, or in the way Bill Clinton could be strongly identified with Arkansas and George W. Bush with Texas.
What Noonan laments, I celebrate. I was attracted to candidate Obama in part because of, not despite, his dislocated background. I identified with it. It meant sympathy for my own stints living abroad and my habit of roving around the world for work, education and pleasure.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
‘The Kansan mother and Kenyan father’
Otherwise known as The Ho and the Deadbeat....
Eaves must be some sort of prize moron.
Well he can’t prove he’s a citizen of the US that’s fer dang sure
I don’t believe this about 0be. Shouldn’t we look at all of the passports he has had over the years? Then we might actually know where he was when and where his real loyalties lie.
I thought he was ‘metro-sexual’...
“To me, he cuts a symbolic figure as our first cosmopolitan president....””
At this point, I threw up in my mouth......you’ve got to be kidding me......
Barack Obama= uncle Tom to some
“To me, he cuts a symbolic figure as our first cosmopolitan president....””
Does he drink cosmopolitans or read the magazine?
Blank slate! I see $1 trillion plus yearly budget deficits when I look at that clown!
That's all you need to know. Despite all the other fancy stuff that makes liberals gush, it really comes down to this: Barrack Obama is a parochial politician who cut his ideological teeth inside the corrupt Illinois Democratic political machine.
try and paint him as a cosmopolitan citizen of the world all you want, but his entire adult ideological life is a creation of that environment. He's Mayor Dailey with a tan.
(Forbes article author is a FORMER STRIPPER)
Elisabeth Eaves’ first book Bare
The Naked Truth About Stripping was called “a first-rate, first-person work of social anthropology” by the Washington Post and “an utterly engrossing, accessible, and informative study” by Booklist.
In its unstinting honesty, Bare demands that we take a closer look at the way sexuality is viewed in our culture: what, if anything, constitutes “normal” desire; the ethics of swapping money – or anything else – for sex; and how women and men navigate the perilous contradictions and double standards that make up today’s socio-sexual conversation.
Originally published in hardcover by Knopf, Bare is now available in paperback from Seal Press.
To me, cosmopolitan = someone with vague loyalties who probably can’t be trusted or counted on in a pinch.
Only for people as vacuous as the author, who is apparently desperate to be "lead" by someone...
That’s exactly what I dislike most about him. He’s not an American.
(notice her indocrination at our communist universties, with “International Studies”.)
Elisabeth Eaves (born 1971) is a Canadian author and journalist. She is a frequent contributor to Slate magazine and currently works for Forbes magazine as a staff writer.
Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Eaves received a B.A. in international studies from the University of Washington and a Masters in International Affairs from Columbia University.
Eaves is author of Bare: On Women, Dancing, Sex, and Power (2002), a non-fiction book about stripping. She worked as a stripper in the Lusty Lady peep show in Seattle, an establishment that had considered (and ultimately rejected) unionization for its workers.
“He’s Mayor Dailey with a tan.”
LOL. I am stealing that one. Nice work!
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