The Gift Of Twaddle And Ignorance

clipped from www.powerlineblog.com Is Obama a gifted writer? Draper claims to find evidence of Obama's literary gifts throughout Obama's adult life. Draper's article to the contrary notwithstanding, the evidence of Obama's literary gifts is limited to Dreams. Whether or not Bill Ayers collaborated with Obama on Dreams -- a proposition about which I am agnostic -- the lack of such evidence elsewhere seems to me to raise a legitimate question about the authorship of Dreams. JOHN adds: So Obama thinks the conflict between the West and Islam is "rooted in colonialism." Do you think he means Islam's efforts--quite successful efforts--to colonize Europe that lasted from the seventh through the seventeenth centuries? No, I don't think so either. When it comes to history, Obama is an idiot. In a different context, Victor Davis Hanson writes, "There seems to be neither a moral compass nor even a casual knowledge of history in this administration."