Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Barack Obama - Caesar?
Core values and distinguishing right from wrong; or conventional "expertise" and "charisma".
I think I listed the right choice first...
I think I listed the right choice first...
On his website, David Warren writes:
"In my world, you don't humour a politician who presents 'Change,' 'Unity,' and especially, 'Hope,' as hypnotic mantras, with the power of enchantment over very large crowds. And you especially don't humour such a politician at a time when both country and world are unstable, and hard decisions will have to be made.
Deeper than this: Obama has presented himself from the start as a messianic, 'transformational' leader -- and thus played deceitfully with ideas that belong to religion and not politics. That he has done this so successfully is a mark of the degree to which the U.S. itself, like the rest of the western world, has lost its purchase on the Christian religion."
