On that Baptist discussion forum I used to peruse there are many who rather like Barack Obama for president. Fair enough. What strikes me is how conservative forum participants would press back and ask “Can you tell me exactly why you like him so much? Can you tell me what he has done? Something specific?” And the response is almost invariably… silence.
Charles Krauthammer does it again in his column “Self-Made Man or Mysterious Stranger?” It includes the following:
Barack Obama is an immensely talented man whose talents have been largely devoted to crafting, and chronicling, his own life. Not things. Not ideas. Not institutions. But himself…
The oddity of this convention is that its central figure is the ultimate self-made man, a dazzling mysterious Gatsby. The palpable apprehension is that the anointed is a stranger — a deeply engaging, elegant, brilliant stranger with whom the Democrats had a torrid affair. Having slowly woken up, they see the ring and wonder who exactly they married last night.
Read the whole thing here. You do not have to register.
You like him. We can trust him. He inspired hope. Okay. But precisely what has he done? Precisely what specific policy proposals can you mention? (Let alone that bear up to scrutiny.) He talks a good game – but where is the evidence? Obama talks about “getting past partisan politics” yet he is one of the most partisan of all. McCain on the other hand has a known track record – of bucking the Republican party in order to play nice with Democrats.
Facts.
