My sense of Barack Hussein Obama has changed little since my earlier post on him, describing him as merely a nicer version of John Edwards, with better teeth, less histrionic hair, and a smaller house. And all-importantly, his PC color, without which he would be utterly nobody, or maybe a motivational speaker or pastor of a Black Church (however those two things differ).
The usually insightful part-Canuck Charles Krauthammer puts it quite nicely, that in the midst of the swooning rockstar response that for this "nice looking" (really? He's no JC Watts, not even a Harold Ford Jr in that department) half black, half white atonement icon, one thing remains unchanged:
"The freest of all passes to Obama is the general neglect of the obvious central contradiction of his candidacy -- the bipartisan uniter who would bring us together by transcending ideology is at every turn on every policy an unwavering, down-the-line, unreconstructed, uninteresting, liberal Democrat."
Duh.
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