Jeanne d’Arc makes two very good points about Barack Obama:
If Sullivan wants to argue that Obama sounds like a Republican, he’s welcome to his fantasy, but find me one Republican who isn’t being pushed out of the party, who could say “I am my brother?s keeper” without choking on the words. Cain’s question is the core of the every-man-for-himself Republican philosophy. It is the conscience of the left that grows uneasy when God hears the blood crying out from the ground. Our unwillingness close our ears to the sound of blood is what they most deride in us.
The second thing that bothered me, even though it was coming from people who felt the power of that call to progressive values and didn’t try to spin it away, was the emphasis on Obama as a “star.” Folks, this isn’t American Idol. I do not want to hear one more time that we witnessed the political birth of the first African American president. He will be or he won’t be, but Obama’s career plans are the least important thing to care about here.