The Asia Times is attacking Obama in a vicious way by using his anthropologist mother and pro-"blackness" wife against him.
Anthropologists…proceed from resentment against the devouring culture of America and
sympathy with the endangered cultures of the primitive world. Obama inverts the
anthropological model: he applies the tools of cultural manipulation out of
resentment against America. The probable next president of the United States is
a mother’s revenge against the America she despised.
As for his wife: "Never underestimate the influence of a wife who bitch-slaps her husband in
public."
While this is vicious reaction, I know the Asia Times is on to something. Obama has true leftwing pedigree. His wife was taken up with the black man’s plight, Obama has called American Jews, by hints anyway, away from the Israel lobby. Yes he is careful as all get out, but this is his "intellectual milieu," to use a term Paul Berman once used (haranguing about Islamofascism).
The truth is America is ready for a leftist. Because all the brilliant right wing ideas are smoldering in Mesopotamia. We are witnessing a people’s movement in Obama’s rise, and if he wins by anything like what Reagan did in ’80, he will claim a mandate to change America’s image in the world (as Reagan reversed Carter), and he will talk to Syria and Iran. The Obama revolution. It’s time, dude.
