Mr. and Mrs. Grievance
Steyn on the peculiar Michelle Obama, cuts through a lot of American political backyards. Brilliant as usual. Read the whole thing. It may say more about today’s big news than any of the analysis of Barack Obama’s latest utterance.
In case anyone had any question, by the way, Obama will in fact say anything and throw anyone under the bus to get elected. Grandma. Spiritual counselor. Michelle would be a little tougher. She may have to go in the attic.
Obama wants us to think Wright has changed, this racist nutcase is not the man in whose pews he spent the last 20 years, selectively heeding. It’s pretty much the only way Obama can wedge Wright under the wheels.
Unfortunately, it either means he’s really stupid, or thinks we are. There may be a clue in the fact that he also wants us to believe he was giving Wright “the benefit of a doubt,” rather than a wholehearted endorsement in that wretched speech last month. Of course, given the second-coming-of-MLK reception that speech got, when now faced with a situation in which someone needs to be stupid, you can’t blame Obama for going with “thinks we are.”
Malkin liveblogged it with helpful commentary. Adds, All aboard the Jive-Talk Express.
Allah liveblogs it at Hotair.
Iowahawk with a new relationship advice column, “Dear Barry.”
Gateway with some awkward prior utterances.
Ace artblogs it.
Surber Urkeldanceblogs it.
Abdul at Hyscience, chickenblogging it, scratches about to figure out what’s new.
Related, not so different, Frum with a startling factoid:
Attention-grabbing fact from Fred Siegal’s must-read piece on Barack Obama in the dead tree edition: 90% of Obama’s popular vote lead over Hillary Clinton was racked up in his home state of Illinois, and two-thirds of that 90% was accumulated in Cook County.
Chicago has cleaned up its elections a great deal in recent years, so I think we can trust that the vast majority of those voters are indeed living.
OK, enough pointed cruelty. Here’s the discomfiture.
Check this out. Glenn Greenwald thinks we have a healthy political culture. Whatever happened to Bush lied, people died, constitutional rights got trampled, etc? Hang on, I think it’s sarcasm intended to indicate that we shouldn’t be concerned that the man who would be president has a raving bigot for a spiritual advisor.
Andrew Sullivan: “No one will ever be able to say that Obama threw his father-figure and pastor under the bus. We all know that the reverse happened.”
I do not know that.
Huffington Post: Shut up, Barack, and this will all go away. That guy may have a point. Obama’s inartful dodging reveals him to be no Clinton.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 10:59 pm on Tuesday, April 29, 2008
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April 30th, 2008 at 10:44 am
Our Democratic choices this year have gone way past funny, and are now just a huge embarrassment. It’s no wonder the rest of the world doesn’t understand us.
April 30th, 2008 at 11:34 am
Classic Steyn. I really want a Barack Obama “HOPE YOU CAN GROPE” bumper sticker.
April 30th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
Web Reconnaissance for 04/30/2008
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May 1st, 2008 at 12:13 am
Steyn quotes Michelle Obama:
“We left corporate America, which is a lot of what we’re asking young people to do. Don’t go into corporate America.”
That reminded me of a story Louis Ruykeser put in one of his books, concerning Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Senator Pat was giving a speech at Yale. When he looked out at the faces of hundreds of America’s best and brightest (or so they are supposed to be) he asked all to raise their hands who planned to go into business after graduation. Only a tiny number of hands went up. Business did not seem to appeal to the best and brightest.
Pat smiled gently. “Oh, the rest of you just plan to be leeches?”
The Obamas are what economists call rent-seekers, they are tax eaters. It’s plain that neither of them has any clue about how a productive economy works.