Tag Archive 'Mirror of Erised'

Jun 21 2008

The Magical Mystery Of Obama The Enigma

Who is Barack Obama?  What does this cypher of a candidate stand for?  He seems to be an endless sequence of popular and conflicting platitudes upon which people project their deepest desires.  As I noted in a previous post that discussed Obama’s amazingly precise, manufactured vagueness – Obama is much like the fictional Mirror of Erised […]

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Jun 20 2008

Will Obama (of Erised) Throw America Under The Bus?

David Brooks has a harsh, but interesting piece out today on the enigma that is Barack Obama: God, Republicans are saps. They think that they’re running against some academic liberal who wouldn’t wear flag pins on his lapel, whose wife isn’t proud of America and who went to some liberationist church where the pastor damned […]

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