The Anniversary: Eight days after terrorism declared war on America, a young state senator blamed it on "a failure of empathy" — yet another reason why Barack Obama should never be commander in chief. The July 20 issue of the New Yorker magazine article reprised a piece published in Chicago's Hyde Park Herald on Sept. 19, 2001, and written by a then-unknown state senator from Illinois. According to Barack Obama, the madness that drove terrorists to turn passenger jets into manned cruise missiles "grows out of a climate of poverty and ignorance, helplessness and despair." As if the answer to...
