Charles Krauthammer: Obama In The Cross-Hairs

If you’re not familiar with Charles Krauthammer, you need to start reading his articles. Politically eclectic, like yours truly, Krauthammer observes the 2008 Presidential race from a unique perspective – - and he has Barack Obama sighted directly in the cross-hairs of his scope.

Krauthammer is a remarkable person who overcame a serious injury to finish his medical school education, practice psychiatry, and then write so well that he won a Pulitzer Prize. Born in New York City, Krauthammer spent most of his childhood in Montreal, Canada. During his first year of medical school, he was paralyzed in a traffic accident; he continued his studies during a year-long hospitalization, graduated from Harvard Medical School with his class, and practiced psychiatry for several years before going to work for the Jimmy Carter administration. After writing speeches for Walter Mondale and articles for the New Republic and for Time magazine, Krauthammer began writing a weekly column for the Washington Post in 1985; he won the Pulitzer for that column, which he still writes.

Krauthammer plainly sees that Barack Obama has strongly narcissistic personality traits and his columns on Obama reflect that observation. Listed here are a few of Krauthammer’s pieces which I recommend.

OBAMA’S GREATEST ADMIRER. “What Obama does not seem to understand is that the Brandenburg Gate is something you earn. . . . what exactly has he done in his lifetime to merit appropriating the Brandenburg Gate as a campaign prop?” “There’s nothing new about narcissism in politics. . . . Nonetheless, has there ever been a presidential nominee with a wider gap between his estimation of himself and the sum total of his lifetime achievements?”

THE SPEECH: A BRILLIANT FRAUD. “Why didn’t he leave . . . a pastor who thundered not once but three times from the pulpit (on a DVD the church proudly sells) ‘God damn America’? Obama’s 5,000-word speech, fawned over as a great meditation on race, is little more than an elegantly crafted, brilliantly sophistic justification of that scandalous dereliction.”

THE ‘RACE’ SPEECH REVISITED. ” Obama’s turning surprise about Wright into something to be counted against whites– one of the more clever devices in that shameful, brilliantly executed, 5,000-word intellectual fraud in Philadelphia — now stands discredited by Obama’s own admission of surprise.”

A MAN OF SEASONAL PRINCIPLES. “Obama’s seasonally adjusted principles are beginning to pile up: NAFTA, campaign finance reform, warrantless wiretaps, flag pins, gun control. What’s left?”

THE EVER-MALLEABLE MR. OBAMA. “Obama’s long march to the center has begun.”

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UPDATE July 19: In much the same vein, see Krauthammer Skewers The Arrogrance of Obama

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