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August 20, 2008
The Very Best Description I've Seen Of Barack Obama's Career Decisions (and why he's made them)
Topics: Political News and commentariesAfter reading J.R. Dunn's piece at American Thinker this morning on Barack Obama and the rather strange choices he's made in his career, I feel like I suddenly see the light (no, not the light the Obamanauts imagine they see emanating from his "Oneness"), but as in an understanding of what makes this clown such an enigma. In other words, what makes a guy like Barack Obama tick? Why has this character made such odd choices in his adult life? Why the long "string of faux pas marking each step of his journey, a series of strange, inexplicable actions, actions bizarre enough to require some effort at explanation? Why does Obama make choices that are impossible to either understand or explain?
Thanks to Dunn, I now know the answer to such questions: Simply put, Obama is a "flake."
The flake has a genius for discovering solutions at perfect right angles to the ordinary world. It's as if he's the product of a totally different evolutionary chain, in a universe where the laws are slightly but distinctly at variance to ours. When given a choice between left and right, the flake goes up -- if not through the 8th dimension. And although there's plenty of rationalization, there's never a logical reason for any of it. After awhile, people stop asking.Check out a few of Dunn's examples of incidents in Obama's life and ask yourself if anyone other than an absolute flake would do such things:Obama's rise has been widely portrayed as a kind of millennial Horatio Alger story -- young lad from a new state on the outskirts of the American polity, a member of once-despised minority, works his way by slow degrees to within arm's length of the presidency itself. That's all well and good -- we need national myths of exactly that type.
But what has been overlooked is the string of faux pas marking each step of Obama's journey, a series of strange, inexplicable actions, actions bizarre enough to require some effort at explanation, through such efforts have rarely been offered. It's as if the new Horatio made it to the top by stepping into every last manhole and open trapdoor in his path. And we, the onlookers, the voters who are being asked to put this man in the White House, are supposed to take this as the normal career path for a successful chief executive.
[...] Here's a young man who graduated from Columbia with high marks, with a choice of positions anywhere in the country. He comes from a state generally held to be a close match to Paradise. One, furthermore, that can be characterized as the most successful multiracial society in the world, with harmonious relations not only between whites and blacks, but also Japanese-Americans and native Hawaiians as well. To top it off, a state controlled in large part by a smoothly-functioning Democratic machine. So where does he choose to go? ... To Chicago. One of the windiest, coldest, most brutal cities in the country. One that is also infinitely corrupt in a sense that Hawaii is not. One that remains one of the most racist large cities in the U.S.[...] And what does he do when he reaches the city? Why, he joins a cult. Jeremiah Wright's Trinity United Church has been turned inside out since the videotaped sermons appeared early this year, without anyone ever quite explaining exactly what Obama was thinking of when he joined up in the first place. Street cred, so it's claimed. But there are a plethora of black churches that would have provided him that without the taint of demented racism that Wright's church offered.
Obama apparently had to swear an oath of belief in "black liberation theology" when he joined the church. (It is the little touches of that sort that make it a "cult", and not simply a "church".)
Did the thought of his career ever cross his mind? Didn't he realize that church would inevitably cause him trouble somewhere down the line? That he'd be required to repudiate it and its ideas eventually? We can ask -- but we won't get an answer.As Dunn points out in his piece, you can't vote present in the Oval Office. So I suggest that you be sure to read all of Dunn's, "The odd choices in Barack Obama;s career," and then ask yourself if you want a flake getting that 3 A.M. call at the White House.Back at school, Obama got himself named editor of the Harvard Law Review. This is a signal achievement, no question about it. The kind of thing that would be mentioned about a person for the rest of his life, as has been the case with Obama. But then... he writes nothing for the journal.
[...] We follow Obama down to Springfield, where as a state legislator, he voted "present" over 120 times. What this means, as far as I've been able to discover, is that he voted "present" nearly as much as he voted "yes" or "no". ... Now, statehouses work very simply: a member approaches his colleagues and asks them them to vote for his bill. Some comply, some do not. Some ask, "Is it a good bill?" and some don't. Either way, they customarily, except in unusual circumstances, vote "yes' or "no". All except for Barack Obama. And how did get away with it? How did mollify his colleagues? How did he square himself with the party bosses? Echo answereth not.
Update: To Dunn's descriptions of Obama's career choices and the reason he makes them, add Jennifer Rubin's descriptions: "Preening narcissism, a fondness for platitudes, a tendency to whine and a potentially fatal lack of substance."
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