Posted on 08/11/2008 6:58:23 PM PDT by jazusamo
Many years ago, when I was a college student, I took a course from John Kenneth Galbraith. On the first day of class, Professor Galbraith gave a brilliant opening lecture, after which the students gave him a standing ovation.
Galbraith kept on giving brilliant opening lectures the whole semester. But, instead of standing ovations, there were now dwindling numbers of students and some of them got up and walked out in the middle of his lectures.
Galbraith never got beyond the glittering generalities that marked his first lecture. After a while, the students got tired of not getting any real substance.
Senator Barack Obama's campaign this year reminds me very much of that course from Professor Galbraith. Many people were ecstatic during the early primaries, as each state's voters heard his glittering generalities for the first time.
The media loved the novelty of a black candidate with a real chance to become president, and his left-wing vision of the world was largely their vision as well. There was a veritable media honeymoon for Obama.
There was outrage in the mainstream media when ABC anchor man Charles Gibson asked Obama a serious question about the economic effects of a capital gains tax. Who interrupts honeymooners to talk economics?
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Sowell should be the first American Black President.
Another great column from Thomas Sowell.
He’s the man I’d vote for!
Isn’t he referred to as “Uncle” Thomas by the Left?
Too bad he hasn't measured up.
Beautifully and brilliantly put, Dr. Sowell.
Too clever by half, that is definitely Obama.
You and me both!
Another great article by Thomas Sowell. Thanks for posting AND linking his other articles on Obama.
I’ve heard of the term being used but don’t know how prevalent it is. I know the leftists ignore him, they know that he can think circles around them. :)
Chow mein and Qwerty from the same household! But that was the Gilbreth family, with an ‘i’.
The package is being opened, and its contents are not pleasing.
Yep and that is all they got.
You bet...Dr. Sowell pegged the inadequacy of Obama from the start and wasn’t bashful writing about it.
Amen to that!!!
You must not have read his Basic Economics one. That was really easy, and it sure did show why free markets are the only viable options.
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