Posted by
Andrews on Monday, March 24, 2008 7:51:48 PM
Anyone who reads
Best of the Web knows they have a "Life Imitates the Onion" (and sometime other things) running gag.
Well, this time, Best of The Web imitated me. Read my
"Candidate as Inkblot" article and compare it to the current Best of the Web.
Here is a quote:
But what does Obama really believe--about the Middle
East, about Wright's "black liberation theology" or about any other
complicated and sensitive topic? The question is a Rorschach inkblot;
the answer reveals more about one's emotional response to Obama than
about Obama's intellectual response to the world.
If Obama makes you feel good about yourself, you will
give him the benefit of the doubt and assume that his beliefs are
similar to yours. See, for example, Obama enthusiast Marty Peretz expounding on Obama's sympathy for the Jewish state, or Douglas Kmiec,
a judicial conservative and onetime Romney adviser, explaining that
even though Obama has shown no sign of agreeing with him on "important
fundamentals," he is "convinced based upon [Obama's] public
pronouncements and his personal writing that on each of these questions
he is not closed to understanding opposing points of view, and as best
as it is humanly possible, he will respect and accommodate them."
Funny, when I started I never expected to scoop the WSJ.
ADDENDUM
For those who do not regularly read my blog, no, I am not that full of myself. This is meant to be amusing.