ARCHIVED COMMENTARY
From Madrassa
To White House?
For edition of January 04, 2008
We flatly asserted here a while back that the madrassa-educated Obama didn’t have a prayer, but perhaps we shouldn’t have written him off so easily. For in fact, a prayer is what he does have – millions of them, it would seem, each emanating from the heart of some voter who passionately believes Obama represents America’s best hope of regaining its moral stature in the eyes of the world. Whether or not a “nice” guy can accomplish this is open to debate, but the important thing is that his supporters actually believe it, and that they see him, therefore, as a potentially powerful force for radical change.
Ironically, Hillary Clinton is the true candidate for radical change, notwithstanding the fact that she has campaigned, with Oscar-caliber disingenuousness, as a centrist and a moderate. Make no mistake, with America about to slip into bottomless recession, a victorious Hillary could conceivably become the new FDR, rebuilding the welfarist state one acronym at a time, starting with Health and Human Services (HHS).
Socialized Healthcare
Not that we’d fight that one tooth and nail. Our household medical bills have been spiraling out of control just like everyone else’s, and we see no possibility of relief by sticking with the status quo. But regardless of which Democrat gets elected President – and that’s what we foresee happening – the political pressure to socialize medical care in this country has grown well nigh irresistible.
In this area of policy, Obama and Clinton would probably be interchangeable. But it seems most unlikely that the two would talk to our enemies in the same way. Indeed, if it is tough talk that is needed to bring them around, the nation would probably be better served by Dr. Phil as President than by Obama, who gives the impression of being a well-intentioned lightweight. Hillary is another matter, though -- one tough broad, to use a politically incorrect phrase that we nevertheless doubt would offend her. Even though she would probably govern like a red-diaper-baby-turned-trade-unionist, one suspects that she could hold her own in the company of such jihadist thugs as run Iran and Syria.
Race Trumps Sex
But first she’ll have to win her party’s nomination, and it was by no means certain she would prevail as the vote-counting got under way Thursday evening in Iowa. Barack could win it all even though he did not out-perform Hillary on the campaign trail -- as who could have? In closing what first looked like an insurmountable gap in the polls, he has succeeded in exploiting certain natural advantages that he possessed from the outset, including his race, which trumps Hillary’s sex, and his exotic ethnicity, which holds the vague promise of softening our enemies in ways that honky presidents could never have hoped for.
A dangerous illusion? Perhaps. But there is no denying that Obama has won the hearts and minds of self-described idealists, and they seem to be mobilizing with a zeal that shows they understand that just a few votes could make the difference. If college students in particular turn out in droves as never before, it could be Obama’s time.
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