Friday Ciceronian Newswhip!
Et Tu, Ciceroo?
People of the World, Look at Me!
So supposedly sophisticated Europeans, who constantly dissect American politics and culture, seem suddenly to like us now, because a younger, more mellifluous figure repackaged the standard American trans-Atlantic rah-rah speech, dressed up with a little Obama messianic sermonizing: “People of Berlin — people of the world — this is our moment. This is our time!” along with some throwaway lines about global warming and Darfur?
That’s all it took?Victor Davis Hanson, Are We Loved Again Now?
German Parakeet Heads Come to Worship the Messiah
Thomas Madden wants to know how Obama's European Love-Fest Will Play in Peoria?
Diana West, So, What Did Barack Talk About?
James Lewis, A Runaway Ego is Barack's Blind Spot Hey, Lewis! Why don't ya 'fess up and admit you read Liberty Peak Lodge!
A Nuremberg-style mass rally in Germany is not exactly the natural stage for an American presidential candidate to strut his stuff. It's exactly the opposite of the usual politician's schtick in America. "I'm just a little ole country boy" assures the voters that you don't have the swelled head.
Soeren Kern, Obama's European Love Parade
Kathleen Parker, Pride Clouds Obama's Vision
Der Spiegel: Huge Crowds Left with Mixed Feelings
Jake Tapper: Hours Later, Obama Milks Love-Fest for Cash!
The gaffes Barack Obama has committed would have crushed the typical Republican politician. But the reporters who can't get over Dan Quayle's misspelling of "potato" have little to say about their man's slip-ups. Barack's Obama-isms
United States
Victor Davis Hanson: The Sixties Won't Go Away!
Even in the much-poorer 1960s, it was hard to take seriously the idea of loud middle-class suburban kids as street revolutionaries, given the fact that America was the richest and freest society in history. And it’s even harder now when many of them are rich seniors and the country itself is far wealthier.
So when a member of the aging baby-boom generation finger-points at us that drilling oil is the moral equivalent of invading Iraq, or that America has become two nations (the haves and have-nots), we can often expect to discover that the self-righteous sermonizer is a hypocrite. Green Al Gore uses a lot more energy than the average American. Populist John Edwards lives in a huge mansion.
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