That seems to be the implication of this excerpt from the New York Times:
“If I am the face of American foreign policy and American power,” Barack Obama mused not long ago aboard his campaign plane, “as long as we are also making prudent strategic decisions, handling emergencies, crises and opportunities in the world in an intelligent and sober way. . . .” He stopped. He wanted to make sure he got this just right, and he had got a little caught up in rebutting the claim, which Hillary Clinton has artfully advanced, that he is not prepared to handle emergencies. Obama stopped picking at his grilled salmon in order to stare out at the sky for a few moments. “I think,” he said, in that deep and measured voice of his, “that if you can tell people, ‘We have a president in the White House who still has a grandmother living in a hut on the shores of Lake Victoria and has a sister who’s half-Indonesian, married to a Chinese-Canadian,’ then they’re going to think that he may have a better sense of what’s going on in our lives and in our country. And they’d be right.”
The emphasis, of course, is mine.
This is the problem with the left writ large. They are so wrapped up in the group-think mentality — the idea the ethnic, racial, religious, or gender group you may belong to by accident of birth somehow endows you with special knowledge and a special insight to speak on behalf of all people similarly situated — that they just might fall for the absurd idea that voting for a guy like Obama will mean that the world will suddenly be a better place.
Here’s a clue Barack — Osama bin Laden, Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Il and the Chinese Communist Party don’t care where you come from, they just care if you’re competent. Given your 12 years in the Illinois state legislature and two years in the Senate, I’m sure your foreign policy and defense experience surpasses that of the entire faculty of the Kennedy School of Government.
Not so much.
If this is the guy the Democrats think will be their Hillary-stopper, they’re even more naive than I thought.
