Spengler on Obama
By Michael Ledeen
'Spengler' is a columnist for the Asia Times, and that's about all I know about him. He's a strong writer, he knows a great deal about many things, and when he's good he's so stimulating that you spend hours being grateful that he's there. His take on Obama is a delight: Obama as radical anthropologist. His information on Obama's mother seems very important; I hadn't known about the identity of her second husband, who seems to have been an Indonesian version of the Kenyan first husband, and I entirely agree that these facts are enormously important if we are going to understand Obama himself. And if it is true that most of us fall in love with women who are in fundamental ways like our mothers, what Spengler has to say about Obama's angry, America-hating mom makes sense in light of the several indicators that his wife is, at bottom, just that. The article is full of common sense: a good marriage doesn't require that husband and wife share likes, but they must share hatreds, for example...read it all. I don't share his gloom about the state of America, but he could well be right. I'm decidedly a glass-half-full sort of guy, after all. |
