Is a puzzlement
Herein John Kass of the Chicago Tribune poses an interesting- and obvious- question: how is it that Barack Obama- child of the corrupt world of South Side Chicago politics- has hitherto been able to present himself as a pristine and unblemished reformer, of all things?
The answer: Obama is unvetted. He's a former state senator who has hardly been around the U.S. Senate to make a name for himself either for good or for ill nationally. At the state level, he wasn't prominent enough to create a profile, either.
Hence, everybody is free to project on to him their own wishes and fantasies- and they do, especially if they work in the media.
The media's love affair with Obama is a wonderful thing for us Republicans. Sooner or later, somebody is going to do what nobody has done yet: take a good look at this guy's life and career. I'm not saying that there are necessarily frightening skeletons in the Obama closet, or even any skeletons at all. But he isn't he person the MSM is treating him as- no sinful member of our fallen human race is- and when the reality of who this unknown the liberal media and the political Left is swooning over is finally made manifest, Barack Obama will not be the only person who is left a bit deflated.
John McCain has been in the public eye for years. His skeletons have long since been examined in great detail; the New York Times and others on the Left are now having to try to invent dirt on him, and doing a none too convincing job either of making him look bad or of disguising their own partisan motives. But Barack Obama has all of us embarassments ahead of him.
The general consensus these days seems to be that John McCain is doing amazingly well for a Republican candidate running to succeed another Republican who happens to be the most unpopular president in history, and that the ongoing battle between Obama and his (let's face it) defeated challenger, Hillary Clinton, is working to McCain's benefit. When the smoke clears, the conventional wisdom says, the Democrats will rally behind Obama, and events will take the course George W. Bush's unpopularity seems to forecast.
Don't bet on it. When so many in both the Democratic Party and in its auxiliary, the mainstream media, go this far out on a limb for such a complete unknown- especially one who gives evidence of such radical naivette when it comes to foreign policy and national politics generally- they're crusin' for a brusin'.
I'm not necessarily predicting at this point that McCain will win. But I am predicting that it will be a spirited race whose outcome is very much in doubt- and will remain so right down to the wire.
That, and parenthetically observing that it's highly doubtful that any of the Republican candidates except John McCain would have been able to be competitive even at this point in the campaign.
The answer: Obama is unvetted. He's a former state senator who has hardly been around the U.S. Senate to make a name for himself either for good or for ill nationally. At the state level, he wasn't prominent enough to create a profile, either.
Hence, everybody is free to project on to him their own wishes and fantasies- and they do, especially if they work in the media.
The media's love affair with Obama is a wonderful thing for us Republicans. Sooner or later, somebody is going to do what nobody has done yet: take a good look at this guy's life and career. I'm not saying that there are necessarily frightening skeletons in the Obama closet, or even any skeletons at all. But he isn't he person the MSM is treating him as- no sinful member of our fallen human race is- and when the reality of who this unknown the liberal media and the political Left is swooning over is finally made manifest, Barack Obama will not be the only person who is left a bit deflated.
John McCain has been in the public eye for years. His skeletons have long since been examined in great detail; the New York Times and others on the Left are now having to try to invent dirt on him, and doing a none too convincing job either of making him look bad or of disguising their own partisan motives. But Barack Obama has all of us embarassments ahead of him.
The general consensus these days seems to be that John McCain is doing amazingly well for a Republican candidate running to succeed another Republican who happens to be the most unpopular president in history, and that the ongoing battle between Obama and his (let's face it) defeated challenger, Hillary Clinton, is working to McCain's benefit. When the smoke clears, the conventional wisdom says, the Democrats will rally behind Obama, and events will take the course George W. Bush's unpopularity seems to forecast.
Don't bet on it. When so many in both the Democratic Party and in its auxiliary, the mainstream media, go this far out on a limb for such a complete unknown- especially one who gives evidence of such radical naivette when it comes to foreign policy and national politics generally- they're crusin' for a brusin'.
I'm not necessarily predicting at this point that McCain will win. But I am predicting that it will be a spirited race whose outcome is very much in doubt- and will remain so right down to the wire.
That, and parenthetically observing that it's highly doubtful that any of the Republican candidates except John McCain would have been able to be competitive even at this point in the campaign.
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