Friday, May 18, 2007

Barack Obama Sells His Soul to Rise in White Washington
by max blunt
Barack Obama has become a major celebrity: a truth becomes a cliché.

His campaign has raised massive amounts of funding. He draws large and enthusiastic crowds when he appears. Often described as charismatic, he is more importantly smart and well spoken.

Yet before I jump into his campaign, I have a few questions that I first want to share with you and which I hope he will address in the not-too-distant future.

There is a way in which I cannot tell who is the real Senator Obama. For one, he has not carved out—at least as of this writing—any cutting edge issues where he is taking the lead and defining the terrain.

Second, and to some extent more troubling, he permits people to see and assume in him what they want to see and assume.

I have said to many of my friends that this situation reminds me of an episode from the original Star Trek series where there was a creature that appears to the viewer the way the viewer would like to see it......LINK

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