Posted on 07/27/2008 9:26:01 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Napoleon Bonaparte’s test for generalship was a very simple one. Of a man recommended by others for gallantry or fortitude or strategic genius he would inquire only: “But is he lucky?” By this standard, Senator Barack Obama is already the greatest political leader of his generation. From a starting-point in the state Senate in Illinois only a few years ago, he now bestrides the narrow world like a colossus and is already beginning to exhaust the superlatives of the political commentary class.
He has a few charismatic tactics that I suppose will soon begin to wear thin. When greeted by hosts who are heads of state, he places his hand firmly on their backs or their arms, as if to propel them forward, and this means that the resulting photograph makes him look more like the host (and the senior) than the guest (and the junior). That’s clever, and also shrewd in body-language terms. But it’s the luck that makes one whistle. Who would have thought that the dour Shi’ite machine politician, Nuri al-Maliki of Iraq, would time his own proposals on American troop withdrawal as if specifically to undermine his old defender John McCain, and simultaneously to elevate the anti-war candidate?
After that, Obama was able to arrive on European soil with a fair wind of statesmanship behind him, and to act as if the “surge” (which has made talk of withdrawal politically possible) was as much his idea as anyone else’s. The great Aneurin Bevan had an expression for this kind of political agility: he called it “wearing the medals of your defeats”. Obama wears them well, and with style.
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The media being in the tank for Obama isn’t luck.
He is not lucky, he is a liar and has the support of very wealthy and powerful people who are determined,d espite his absolute shrotcmings and anti_American ideology (or because of them) to put him in as President.
But we the people, shall have our say...both leading up to the election and at the voting booths and luck, and what Germans or French think will have nothing to do with that equation.
I think luck has nothing to do with any of this.
I hope what the Germans or French think will have a great deal to do with it. I hope it will cause American voters to vote against Obama by an overwhelming percentage in all 57 States.
Screw Napoleon. What would Patton say? (WWPS?)
Good point. To the extent that Americans will be PO’d about Obama’s attempt to reach out and influence the election in that manner, I hope with you that it does backfire on him.
We’ve heard this kind of adulation for a scoundrel before when the msm thought Clinton was great because he had the audacity to lie every time his lips moved. That’s the standard for Democrat leadership.
hussain is an empty suit
Can’t wait till the dirt comes out
UK publications, ironically, have a much more realistic view of BHO than the US press.
It’s so true that the body language of an almost congratulatory air of Barack’s is too obvious to astute observers, and if not as irritating to most as it appears to have been to Hitchens, then the clips should be played over and over until it is. Ah, the audacity of arrogance.
Completely true....to people with their eyes open. But, we need to accept the simple fact that his act is working extremely well! McCain must expose Obama for the hopelessly naive, empty suit that he is and do so in a way that his adoring, koolAid drunk faithful can not dispute. Keep in mind this has to happen in such a way that the leading disciples (aka: the Main Stream Media) are forced to report it.
Perhaps a live, unscripted debate is in order? I'm sure you've seen what Obama looks and sounds like unscripted.
I noticed this also and thought it was one more clever play by team Obama.
What about his gravitas?...anybody remember that term from 2000?
This person is against everything this nation is, against all what our ancestors fought and died for as this country was born; our freedom, independence and sovereignty.
Cotton candy.
“Gravitas” was only important in 2000. Just like “Character” was unimportant in 1992.
For the liberal media itself, Obama is the second coming of JFK. For many prominent white liberals of recent vintage, he's the second coming of Bill Clinton, America's first black POTUS. For many old fashioned white Democrats, he's the second coming of FDR.
For black Americans, Obama is the second coming of Martin Luther King Jr. The savior of African-Americans. Obama will right all the wrongs that have been heaped on blacks throughout recorded history.
For Europeans, Obama is seen as a composite of many leftwing idols. A little bit of JFK, Clinton, FDR and Martin Luther King, all rolled into one superman.
If you ask me, sounds kind of sad and pathetic. No attributes of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln or Reagan in the mix.
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