Melanie Phillips is a veteran columnist in Britain. Her major recent work is Londonistan, a horrifying account of how the blind officialdom of Britain allowed wishful thinking to convince them that millions of Muslim immigrants could insist on contining to live and follow their Islamic ways and become loyal sons and daughters of Britain. That illusion is giving way to reality.
Today, as Obamamania sweeps through Europe and Britain she is also reminded of the wishful thinking, the infatuation of Brits with Princess Diana, who invested in her all their fantasies, unaware of her “unstable and manipulative nature.” It was all emotion, no reason.
So it is with Obama. Americans’ natural optimism makes them want to believe that, as a black man with a Muslim background (another thing he has cleverly obfuscated), he can heal all wounds, including the U.S.’s history of racism, and bring peace to the world just by being who he is.They see in his attractiveness a flattering reflection of themselves. He doesn’t embarrass them; he makes them feel proud. . . ..
]W]here the Democrat candidate is concerned, the normal faculties of judgment appear to have been suspended.
Important questions about Obama’s judgment, consistency and honesty are not being asked, let alone answered.
He has got away with the fact that for 20 years he belonged to a church which preaches black power racism against white people.
He disavowed his long-time mentor, pastor Jeremiah Wright, only when his extreme views could no longer be ignored — despite the fact that Wright is a supporter of Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the black power Nation of Islam.
How will it end for America?
