Posted on 03/20/2008 4:00:33 PM PDT by shrinkermd
Much to my surprise Charles Krauthammer came up with the best, short description of Obama's speech regarding Reverend Jerimiah Wright.
Krauthammer pointed out: (1)Obama equated the Wright hate speech with a private worry of his white grandmother or the valid observation by Geraldine Ferraro that without his race he would not be the Democrat presidential candidate he is; (2)Obama never expressed any apology of any kind to anyone; (3)And, Obama seems to have taken the attitude of "..Come to me and I will heal you..."
If anyone can link to this very short Krauthammer effort, I would appreciated it.
“Is this a possibility of a third candidate out there somewhere....”
Yes, the Rat Nuts on mydd.com are salivating at the thought of another Al Gore run!
“Krauthammer hit additional points that Obama sets himself up as a racial healer above it all”
I agree with that characterization. As I read Obama’s speech, it appeared he was saying that Rev. Wright, his maternal grandmother, his paternal grandfather, Geraldine Ferraro, his fellow congregants, even his wife, are all hostage to their life experiences and are bigoted to some extent. Only he has risen above his environment and now is the one to lift all others. It came across as self-righteous and condescending.
And think about this. McCain was in the Senate when Hillary was collecting raw FBI files on Republican politicians. The photocopy machine in the WH living quarters was probably smoking because it was being run so long and hard making copies. All of that stuff is now probably burned on a CD. What do you suppose Hillary has on McCain? I’ll bet she has plenty.
I believe they once mentioned that he is a psychologist.
If I remember correctly, he is an MD, a psychiatrist, who was in an accident in college and ended up quadriplegic.
He is an MD-Psychiatrist who never practiced.
And lawyer.
He’s not a lawyer. Source - Wikipedia
Krauthammer was born to Jewish parents of French citizenship.[5] He was raised in Montreal, Canada where he attended McGill University and obtained an honors degree in political science and economics in 1970. From 1970 to 1971, he was a Commonwealth Scholar in politics at Balliol College, Oxford. He later moved to the United States, where he attended Harvard Medical School. In his first year there in 1972, Krauthammer was paralyzed in a serious diving accident. Continuing medical training during his year-long rehabilitation, he graduated with his class, earning a M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1975, and then began working as a psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital. In October 1984, he became board certified in psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.
From 1975-1978, Krauthammer was a Resident and then a Chief Resident in Psychiatry at the Massachusetts General Hospital. During this time he and a colleague identified a form of mania (a part of bipolar disorder) which they named “secondary mania”[6] and published a second important paper.[7] The standard textbook for bipolar disease (“Manic Depressive Illness” by Goodwin and Jamison) contains nine citations of his work.
In 1978, Krauthammer quit medical practice to direct planning in psychiatric research for the Jimmy Carter administration, and began contributing to The New Republic magazine. During the presidential campaign of 1980, Krauthammer served as a speech writer to Vice President Walter Mondale.
In 1981, following the defeat of the Carter/Mondale ticket, Krauthammer began his journalistic career, joining The New Republic as a writer and editor. His New Republic writings won the 1984 “National Magazine Award for Essays and Criticism.” In 1983, he began writing essays for Time magazine. In 1985, he began a weekly column for the Washington Post for which he won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for commentary.
In 2006, the Financial Times named Krauthammer the most influential commentator in America,[8] saying “Krauthammer has influenced US foreign policy for more than two decades. He coined and developed `The Reagan Doctrine’ in 1985 and he defined the US role as sole superpower in his essay, `The Unipolar Moment’, published shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Krauthammer’s 2004 speech `Democratic Realism’ set out a framework for tackling the post 9/11 world, focusing on the promotion of democracy in the Middle East.”
On the other hand, left-wing commentators have been quite hostile to Krauthammer. In a 2006 column in The American Prospect criticizing The New Republic and other proponents of democratization in Arab countries, Matthew Yglesias wrote that Krauthammer is “very possibly the worst journalist working in America today, a relentlessly pernicious force, never right about anything, who feels his commentary should not be shackled by the small-minded bonds of accuracy or logic.
He made this statement on Special Report last night.
I know. I transcribed it from the TiVo. I think it might have already been available from FNC, but I didn’t know that.
You’re right. He’s not a lawyer, but then again Wiki is not a legitimate source of reserach either.
Born in New York City and raised in Montreal, Krauthammer was educated at McGill University (B.A. 1970), Oxford University (Commonwealth Scholar in Politics) and Harvard (M.D. 1975). While serving as a resident and then chief resident in psychiatry at the Massachusetts General Hospital, he published scientific papers, including his co-discovery of a form of bipolar disease, that continue to be cited in the psychiatric literature.
In 1978, he quit medical practice, came to Washington to direct planning in psychiatric research in the Carter administration, and began contributing articles to The New Republic.
Like it or not, he now has to choose a side but personally I think its too late and the damage is done.
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I think I need a bumper sticker saying “Typical White Person Voting Republican”
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