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Anonymous William said...

Magnificent, Steve.

Somehow I suspect that at least a few journalists will be using your work when looking for something to write about Obama. Don't expect to be getting cited much, though.

1/21/08, 12:05 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Interesting but a sideshow. Obama is the last gasp of relevancy for the status-obsessed elite going on about racism. To the inner-city black community struggling with the appalling death toll that their own and Latino gangs create, and the desire to embrace Farrakhanism separatism, Obama means nothing.

Meanwhile Latinos ethnically/economically as you say Blacks out of neighborhoods. Black voting power and the hold on the nation's imagination is basically irrelevant. In the tide of Mexican immigration.

1/21/08, 12:16 AM

Anonymous Henry Canaday said...

It is interesting that Obama was most eager to find his blackness after he spent 20 years in the bosom of privileged white institutions, from his prep school through an elite university and Harvard Law School. Then, after consorting with black fellow activists, constituents and congregation members for a decade, he apparently became desperate to rediscover his trans-racial side and middle class values. Maybe, like most intelligent people, Obama reacts against the insular cronyism of whatever culture he has been most recently and deeply exposed to.

George Will may feel he understands this side of Obama. Nurtured, prospering in and beginning his adult life in universities, Will fled these for the candid crassness of contemporary politics and the necessary imperfections of tight deadlines. I recall that whenever a college football scandal made the news, Will would write a column saying, in effect, if you think college sports are corrupt, you ought to see college academics.

1/21/08, 6:00 AM

Anonymous none of the above said...

The quoted section about Obama and his daughters sure doesn't call his Christianity into question to me. How many adult Christians don't have some doubts? Ever read anything by Madeline L'Engle?

I have to guess that Obama doesn't have a hell of a lot in common with most of any ethnic group. Haven't most of us had the experience of trying to fit in with normal people, despite being a lot smarter than they were? It sure seems like Obama would face this problem much more seriously than most of us, since he's very smart, and he's doing political organization in a community with a seriously low average IQ, lousy schools, not much cultural support for education or intelligence, etc.

Based on intelligence and interest, he wouldn't fit anywhere but a narrow academic/high IQ enclave. And yet he needs to fit with the larger black community in the US, as part of his identity. This has just got to suck.

1/21/08, 6:58 AM

Anonymous fwood1 said...

Anon wrote:

"Obama is the last gasp of relevancy for the status-obsessed elite going on about racism."

I hope so, but I doubt it.

1/21/08, 8:01 AM

Anonymous David said...

henry and none of the above,

I think you're reading your own virtues and personalities into Obama.

Objectively we can establish that the man is a black racist who never held a real job in his life.

But being a serial skeptic and being persecuted by the black community seem either like traits held more by the beholder than by the beheld - or like wishful thinking intended to make excuses for the man.

He's not a guy whose spiritual adviser has always been a black nationalist. No, he's a serial skeptic. That's it.

He's not enthusiastic about the black community and its claims. Instead, he suffers - and deeply - on account of it. Poor Obama. If it sucks to be the preppie from paradise, think how horrible it will be to be President.

We're always making excuses for blacks - putting on them the best possible interpretation we can think of - instead of simply looking at them objectively.

1/21/08, 8:50 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

The thing that's so fascinating about Steve's Obama obsession is that at the end of the day, it's clear that he actually likes the guy, even while thinking that his intellect and ambition have led him in some seriously wrong directions.

1/21/08, 10:59 AM

Anonymous Svigor said...

"His love for Africa and African American people has made him an unforgettable force, a catalyst for change and a religious leader who is sincere about his faith and his purpose."

Wright was a bit unkind to Farrakhan - I've never heard a mainstream white politician tell whites they might want to think about securing their own interests, as whites, but Louis did just that on CSPAN some years back.

1/21/08, 1:12 PM

Anonymous Svigor said...

Somehow I suspect that at least a few journalists will be using your work when looking for something to write about Obama. Don't expect to be getting cited much, though.

I think it might've started already. A talk radio stand-in was just referring to Wright as a "loose cannon" a couple of days ago (actually, I think it was the Jewish guy who'd written Obama's biography who said that, whilst trying to soft-pedal Obama's racialism, but I digress)

1/21/08, 1:15 PM

Anonymous Svigor said...

The thing that's so fascinating about Steve's Obama obsession is that at the end of the day, it's clear that he actually likes the guy, even while thinking that his intellect and ambition have led him in some seriously wrong directions.

What's interesting about this post is not the (common) assertion that doing something (or violating some taboo) other people don't, more than once, constitutes an "obsession," but the assumption that it'll fly here.

1/21/08, 2:33 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Obama is a media creation. And like Britney, Paris, Lindsay, Anna Nicole, and a gazillion overhyped films that flop, will flop as well.

If all it took was media people working themselves into a lather, Kevin Federline would be the top-earning movie star today. And the Golden Compass wouldn't have flopped.

Oprah's website is already filled with comments calling her a traitor for backing Obama over Hillary. Hahahaha!

1/21/08, 8:45 PM

Anonymous langalibalele said...

david sed:

"We're always making excuses for blacks - putting on them the best possible interpretation we can think of - instead of simply looking at them objectively."

Well sed. As an Afrikaner I can only agree with you. Most Afrikaner folks, who work with blacks on a daily basis, know what you are talking about. Only people who work superficially with blacks, or live far away, would start swooning over them. If you look at them the way they are, things become very sober indeed.

1/22/08, 1:17 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

anonymous said...
"Obama is a media creation. And like Britney, Paris, Lindsay, Anna Nicole, and a gazillion overhyped films that flop, will flop as well."

You can add Mandela, Mbeki, Njoma and Mugabe to that list as well. The real question is why on earth the media invest such an enormous amount of time and money propping up people that they would not touch with a barge pole if they had a white skin?

1/22/08, 1:21 AM

Anonymous Henry Canaday said...

David

I could be quite critical of Obama in other areas, particularly the vapidity of his foreign policy views and the fact that I do not even know what he would do in most areas of domestic policy. He seems like a man who, before he began to run for president, had not thought seriously for three minutes about many of the issues a president will actually confront.

But on the issue of race in American society, which he has spent the majority of his life thinking seriously about, Obama seems, at least now, to be both sane and sincere. Maybe it is just boredom with the conventions of black angst, but a capacity for boredom can be useful in any politician.

We have had now in Washington DC two pre-Obama 'men of color,' mayors of mixed racial ancestry, Anthony Wilson and now Adrian Fenty. Wilson was a nerd in a bow tie, and Fenty is a kind of post-Civil Rights high achiever. Wilson governed and Fenty is governing from the center of the city's racial divides, concentrating on competence rather than grievances. The city was much better off after Wilson's two terms, although heaven knows it had a huge hole to climb out of. And mayors only have to operate the machinery of government honestly, not make difficult philosophical decisions about what government does, both at home and abroad.

1/22/08, 4:38 AM

Anonymous Fred said...

"But on the issue of race in American society, which he has spent the majority of his life thinking seriously about, Obama seems, at least now, to be both sane and sincere. Maybe it is just boredom with the conventions of black angst, but a capacity for boredom can be useful in any politician."

I think the zeal with which many whites have embraced Obama represents not the audacity of hope, but the triumph of hope over experience. The idea that electing a black man will magically propel the black community beyond its grievances and dysfunctions is not a new one; in fact, this was largely the reason why many New Yorkers voted for David Dinkins as the city's first black mayor. Four years later they elected Giuliani to clean up the mess.

The success of Obama's campaign so far shows the power of a truly gifted and charismatic orator. That, along with the Dinkins illusion of transformation, are the only reasons why he has so much support. On matters of policy -- from his left-liberal economic proposals to his early and consistent opposition to the Iraq War -- Obama is no different than Kucinich, who (as a former mayor) happens to have more executive experience than him.

1/22/08, 5:37 AM

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