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Obama, grandeur unleavened by experience.
19 July 2008My wife just finished up Presidential Courage by Michael Beschloss and her assessment of Presidential Courage which by the way is not a conclusion of the book, is that Presidents just do not get to dictate the course of events. Lincoln did not set out to free the slaves, only when it became a means to the end did he. Kennedy found himself in a strategic mess both of and not of his making.
Presidents must work within the political realities of within America and without to achieve the best American centric outcome. Those who had the pragmatic wisdom and experience fared the best for America.
McCain carries the scars and pains of his experience. Obama is wide eyed with grandeur unleavened by experience.
I borrow from the everydayrepublican:
Columnist Charles Krauthaumer put it best today when summing up who Barack Obama really is:
Obama is a three-year senator without a single important legislative achievement to his name, a former Illinois state senator who voted “present” nearly 130 times. As president of the Harvard Law Review, as law professor and as legislator, has he ever produced a single notable piece of scholarship? Written a single memorable article? His most memorable work is a biography of his favorite subject: himself.It is a subject upon which he can dilate effortlessly. In his victory speech upon winning the nomination, Obama declared it a great turning point in history — “generations from now we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment” — when, among other wonders, “the rise of the oceans began to slow.” As economist Irwin Stelzer noted in his London Daily Telegraph column, “Moses made the waters recede, but he had help.” Obama apparently works alone.
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