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Victor Davis Hanson exercises some deconstruction with respect to Obama's controversial 'bitter' speech.
Hanson does a good job of drawing out Obama's slick-player identity. I'm not really turned by this recent controversy, because it strikes me as being more about walking through a minefield of political correctness. It is an off-note, as it is condescending and suggests a chilly aloofness to common folks, but McCain is hardly a more satisfying alternative, and especially since having started to read Nigel Hamilton's book on the Clinton first-term, I favor getting past the Clinton era in our history, myself. Obama's not a saint, but he is a full-witted liberal. We have to elect a mere mortal for the presidency, and he strikes me as the best of our three options.
Hanson does a good job of drawing out Obama's slick-player identity. I'm not really turned by this recent controversy, because it strikes me as being more about walking through a minefield of political correctness. It is an off-note, as it is condescending and suggests a chilly aloofness to common folks, but McCain is hardly a more satisfying alternative, and especially since having started to read Nigel Hamilton's book on the Clinton first-term, I favor getting past the Clinton era in our history, myself. Obama's not a saint, but he is a full-witted liberal. We have to elect a mere mortal for the presidency, and he strikes me as the best of our three options.
