Bandwagon Tire Pressure II
Does he have real greatness in him? Or is he, say, a product of the self-esteem campaign, that movement within the schools and homes of our country the past 25 years that says the way to get a winner is to tell the kid he's a winner every day? You can get some true people of achievement that way, because some people need a lot of reinforcement to rise. But you can also get, not to put too fine a point of it, empty suits that take on a normal shape only because they're so puffed up with ego.
Is Mr. Obama's self-conception in line with his gifts, depth, wisdom and character? That's the big question, I suspect, on a number of minds.
You got THAT right Sister.
This article from Politico also provides some insight on the questionable inevitability of Dems taking the White house... 7 worrisome signs for Obama
One of the signs is race because it's too hard to nail down in polls, I mean who, but an idiot, would admit to a pollster they wouldn't vote for someone because of their skin color? I have a good buddy who believes McCain's only chance to win is if he names a black VP. I'm not so sure.
Obama has already broken through enough barriers for America to feel good about itself, taking 98% white Iowa comes to mind. America also, one hopes, is mature enough to recognize that any perceived benefit, particularly at this place in history, of electing an affirmative action president to assuage white guilt is just way too risky, especially this particular affirmative action candidate.
If he wasn't so far left we might indulge ourselves the experiment of something completely different for its own sake or the sheer novelty, but as world events like Georgia and Iran keep reminding us, as alluring as it may sound, the time for radical change just isn't ripe. Fortunately the more they find out about the kind of change Obama is talking about, the more comfortable they can become with voting the status quo. One hopes...
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