A Tedious Demagogue
Obama’s speech tonight is just tedious. Why does he never say anything specific that isn’t also an appeal to identity politics? All he does is spin platitudes. And puts a game face on. No more wisecracks about any Chimperors anymore, by God! This is Obama Soter.
By contrast, McCain wasn’t too graceful in the delivery of his own little speech earlier tonight, but who cares? He at least gave some specific ideas and made a plausible case for his own kind of “change” —a concept that Obama has clearly taken to its theoretical limit as a rhetorical device. Which is all he has: the merest assertion that he is an agent of change. Where is the evidence?
I am surprised at how perfunctory Obama’s accomplishment seems to me tonight. It is, as I wrote here a few weeks ago, a disappointment that the first potential black President does not actually come from the Black Experience in America. I know that is selfish and arbitrary, but it is not gratuitous. I think of Barack Hussein Obama as a cosmopolitan. He is, at the least, post-nationalistic. In my worldview, that is unacceptable. I love my country and I don’t want to see it administered by someone who didn’t even grow up here.
