Good analysis by Peggy Noonan, one of Reagan's speechwriters.
What Noonan didn't say, or even alude to, is another fear from mainstreet Americans....After the last go around with the
Rev Wright/Farrakham and Farrakham's ties to Malcom X" ...the question comes up and becomes:
Is Obama being controlled by others we know nothing of as yet?????
Noonan did say this, and I certainly agree:
This connected in my mind to the persistent feeling one has -- the fear one has, actually -- that the Obamas, he and she, may not actually know all that much about America. They are bright, accomplished, decent, they know all about the yuppie experience, the buppie experience, Ivy League ways, networking. But they bring along with all this -- perhaps defensively, to keep their ideological views from being refuted by the evidence of their own lives, or so as not to be embarrassed about how nice fame, success, and power are -- habitual reversions to how tough it is to be in America, and to be black in America, and how everyone since the Reagan days has been dying of nothing to eat, and of exploding untreated diseases. America is always coming to them on crutches.
But most people didn't experience the past 25 years that way. Because it wasn't that way. Do the Obamas know it?
This is a lot of baggage to bring into the Executive Mansion. |
