Monday, March 17, 2008

The Manchurian Mother's Candidate: As Stupid As His Audience?

clipped from www.atimes.com

Barack Obama is a clever fellow who imbibed hatred of America with
his mother's milk, but worked his way up the elite ladder of education and
career. He shares the resentment of Muslims against the encroachment of
American culture, although not their religion. He has the empathetic skill set
of an anthropologist who lives with his subjects, learns their language, and
elicits their hopes and fears while remaining at emotional distance. That is,
he is the political equivalent of a sociopath. The difference is that he is
practicing not on a primitive tribe but on the population of the United States.



There is nothing mysterious about Obama's methods. "A demagogue tries to sound
as stupid as his audience so that they will think they are as clever as he is,"
wrote Karl Krauss. Americans are the world's biggest suckers, and laugh at this
weakness in their popular culture.