The Obama non sequitur

Charles Krauthammer in the Washington Post succinctly explains Barack Obama's appeal, why he nonetheless lost in Ohio and Texas, and what his underlying weakness is:

"The effect of such sweeping invocations of unity [as Obama's] is electric, particularly because race is the deepest and most tragic of all American divisions, and this invocation is being delivered by a man who takes us powerfully beyond it. The implication is that he is therefore uniquely qualified to transcend all our other divisions.

"It is not an idle suggestion. It could be true. The problem is that Obama's own history suggests that, in his case at least, it is not. Indeed, his Senate record belies the implication."

Comments

[Jim S.]

Sorry but Obama was right to oppose every single one of those laws-the wiretapping "compromise", for one. To believe such a conservative as Krauthammer is not very smart.