Alterations

Jonathan Alter in Newsweek shows yet again why Obama supporters frighten me. He seems to believe it'd be worth having Obama as President just for all the wonderful things we'd learn from his constant lecturing.

Here's a good example of the tone of the piece:

...in the United States, black opinion is now nearly unanimously behind Obama, with as many as 90 percent supporting him in the primaries [i.e., about the same percentage Democrats usually get in the general election]. While Obama can do much to guide white Americans toward a better racial future and a greater appreciation that poor kids are not, as he says, "someone else's children," his most exciting potential for moral leadership could be in the African-American community.

I don't know what's worse, the condescension toward whites, the condescension toward blacks, or just the general bootlicking.

Alter goes on about Obama's special relation with the black community, and how he can speak to them as others can't. Now why would that be? Couldn't be for the same reason that got Geraldine Ferraro in so much trouble, could it?