Power Line: The resistible rise of Barack Obama
There is a decent break down here of a New Yorker article Ryan Lizza wrote about Obama's rise and a link to a Jonah Goldberg article discussing the enormity and consistency of one thing more and more people seem to be talking about in regards to Barack Obama. His ego.
I hold in my hand another testament to this, "The Audacity of Hope" penned by none other than The man himself. I read it for the first time on the Independence Day weekend, I figured I should catch up. Weeks later what stand out in my mind isn't the man or the platform he stands on. It's the effort he went to in constructing some of the most technically correct--and incredibly long--sentences the man weaves.
I'm not left with substance, just a feeling that a great deal of effort was put into trying to convince me he is a scholar among scholars and a visionary among the blind.
I am still recovering from the ego bruising, but that's another story. I want desperately to see something in our future beyond 100 years of war, but in the end of the day at least thats a plan.
The grand ideas, of taking care of our weakest and providing for our youngest, as a nation and a species is wonderful and I fully support it, but I can't stand on lofty ideas I need a plan, and a plan we can afford.
Ego is all I see from Obama and his most hardcore supporters, and it may carry him to election day but I doubt it will see him into the White House.
Ego, as a root motivation for human endeavor, in many ways is what's gotten us here.
There is a decent break down here of a New Yorker article Ryan Lizza wrote about Obama's rise and a link to a Jonah Goldberg article discussing the enormity and consistency of one thing more and more people seem to be talking about in regards to Barack Obama. His ego.
I hold in my hand another testament to this, "The Audacity of Hope" penned by none other than The man himself. I read it for the first time on the Independence Day weekend, I figured I should catch up. Weeks later what stand out in my mind isn't the man or the platform he stands on. It's the effort he went to in constructing some of the most technically correct--and incredibly long--sentences the man weaves.
I'm not left with substance, just a feeling that a great deal of effort was put into trying to convince me he is a scholar among scholars and a visionary among the blind.
I am still recovering from the ego bruising, but that's another story. I want desperately to see something in our future beyond 100 years of war, but in the end of the day at least thats a plan.
The grand ideas, of taking care of our weakest and providing for our youngest, as a nation and a species is wonderful and I fully support it, but I can't stand on lofty ideas I need a plan, and a plan we can afford.
Ego is all I see from Obama and his most hardcore supporters, and it may carry him to election day but I doubt it will see him into the White House.
Ego, as a root motivation for human endeavor, in many ways is what's gotten us here.
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