The Audacity of Obama

Phyllis Schlafly, Townhall, October 7, 2008 To see why it is impossible for Obama to play this transcending role, read his autobiography, “Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance.” His Dreams are obsessed with race and race conflict. Obama describes how he deliberately separated himself from his multiracial heritage in order to give himself a 100 percent black persona, different and alienated from the white world around him. Obama writes that the book is “a record of a personal, interior journey” to establish himself as “a black American.” With his new all-black identity, Obama stews about injustices that he never personally experienced and feeds his warped worldview by withdrawing into a “smaller and smaller coil of rage.” He lives with a “nightmare vision” of black powerlessness. Obama says that the hate... [read full story]