Posted on 09/04/2008 4:55:11 AM PDT by Libloather
Is Obama the Democrats' perfect stranger?
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER
WASHINGTON POST
Last Modified: Tuesday, September 2, 2008 at 6:35 a.m.
Barack Obama is an immensely talented man whose talents have been largely devoted to crafting, and chronicling, his own life. Not things. Not ideas. Not institutions. But himself.
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The air of unease at the Democratic convention last week was not just a result of the Clinton psychodrama. The deeper anxiety was that the party was nominating a man of many gifts but precious few accomplishments -- bearing even fewer witnesses.
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Eerily missing at the Democratic convention this year were people of stature who were seriously involved at some point in Obama's life standing up to say: I know Barack Obama. I've been with Barack Obama. We've toiled/endured together. You can trust him. I do.
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Who was there to speak about the real Barack Obama? His wife.
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So where are the colleagues? The buddies? The political or spiritual soul mates? His most important spiritual adviser and mentor was Jeremiah Wright. But he's out. Then there's William Ayers, with whom he served on a board. He's out. Where are the others? The oddity of the Democratic convention is that its central figure was the ultimate self-made man, a dazzling mysterious Gatsby. The palpable apprehension is that the anointed is a stranger -- a deeply engaging, elegant, brilliant stranger with whom the Democrats had a torrid affair. Having slowly woken up, they see the ring and wonder who exactly they married last night.
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The entire main stream media!!
Gunny,
Maybe we can add Larry Sinclair to the illustrious list of friends.
Interesting insights from Krauthammer, the psychiatrist
Hippies smell.
“Where are the colleagues, buddies, friends?”
SHHHHH. Those people are off limits, don’t you know?
Besides the statute of limitations still hasn’t run out on some of their crimes.
I can’t wait for obama to say, “For the first time in my life, I have a friend America can be proud of!” Now all he has to do is find one.
A Community Organizer in the big Mafia town of Chicago. Isn't that the man who tracks the businesses and sends the bag men
He doesn’t even have a family to stand by him. I realise some of them are dead, and that’s certainly not his fault. Those that aren’t dead he seems to have hidden. His brother is living in some cardboard box, most of his other family aren’t americans, what about her family, does she have any brothers or sisters?
It is very strange that we have this candidate and there are no witnesses except his own two books about himself.
Very odd.
Maybe the media should do some vetting and dig up some old friends of Obama’s. They couldstart with all the good people who were under his “leadership” at the National Law Review.
Maybe we’ll find out he used the “n-word” in college.
I find it odd that Hussein Obomber can't produce a birth certificate and the entire country of Kenya is pulling for him.
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