ONE OF THE MOST INTRIGUING ASPECTS OF THE UNICORN RIDE...:

Lack-of-Progress Report: Obama at six months. (Michael Novak, 8/04/09, National Review)

The great class division in American life is no longer between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat (since there is no longer any proletariat, only one huge middle class). It is now between the highly educated elite and the ordinary people of family and neighborhood and common work. So, in calling the cop stupid, Obama pulled the veil back on his own Harvard arrogance. A huge public outcry forced him to step back and telephone both men in order to make peace. To make himself seem like an ordinary guy (the cop, not the professor), he even invited both men to the White House to have “a beer.” Too late! This sudden flash of self-revelation about his own class consciousness was exactly what everyone had suspected for some time.

...is that it is the racial dust-ups that reveal Mr. Obama's inauthenticity most clearly. The pretense that he is black has been the basis of nearly all the success in his career. But that career is the pursuit of whiteness. Before he became president the oddity of a guy who'd never done anything having written two autobiographies was frequently noted. But if we understand those writings as efforts by the man just to understand who he is we can hardly blame him for his confusion.

Posted by Orrin Judd at August 4, 2009 7:13 AM