Monday, June 15, 2009

Krauthammer on Obama

Charles Krauthammer is a nationally syndicated columnist and is read far and wide. So check out some of the "messiah" references he makes regarding our commander in chief;

Not that Obama considers himself divine. (He sees himself as merely messianic, or, at worst, apostolic.) But he does position himself as hovering above mere mortals, mere country, to gaze benignly upon the darkling plain beneath him where ignorant armies clash by night, blind to the common humanity that only he can see. Traveling the world, he brings the gospel of understanding and godly forbearance.

He then goes on to confirm that Obama may have a narcissistic complex;

Obama undoubtedly thinks he is demonstrating historical magnanimity with all these moral equivalencies and self-flagellating apologetics. On the contrary. He's showing cheap condescension, an unseemly hunger for applause and a willingness to distort history for political effect.

He then goes on to call Obama a "soft liar", and almost makes him out to be a traitor of sorts.

Distorting history is not truth-telling, but the telling of soft lies.
Creating false equivalencies is not moral leadership, but moral abdication.
And hovering above it all, above country and history, is a sign not of transcendence but of a disturbing ambivalence toward one's own country.


Read full article here; http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1244371097159&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Wow. I would say that Mr. Krathammer pretty much nailed it.

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