From "Obama: Man of the World", March 6, 2007:
I was a little Jakarta street kid, he said in a wide-ranging interview in his office (excerpts are on my blog, www.nytimes.com/ontheground). He once got in trouble for making faces during Koran study classes in his elementary school, but a president is less likely to stereotype Muslims as fanatics and more likely to be aware of their nationalism if he once studied the Koran with them.Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent. In a remark that seemed delightfully uncalculated (itll give Alabama voters heart attacks), Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.
“I was a little Jakarta street kid”.
Oh, you gotta love that rancid self-memorializing.
As if he’s continually in the process of conveying
his mythical biography to whatever ears will listen.
The Left is good at this: Bill Clinton probably provided
one good example per week:
My favorite chunk of puke from Clinton, delivered in a misty-eyed miasma of self-regard in a speech to acolytes, as he was endorsing Al Gore’s bid for President:
“Fifty four years ago this week,I was born in a summer storm to a young widow in a
small southern town”.
I will never forget the look of total self-love on his face as he uttered those words: even Joe Biden couldn’t top it.