What really scares us about Obama

[LeftishBrit]

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1015095.html

What really scares us about Barack Obama

By Bradley Burston

Tags: Burston, Obama, New Orleans

NEW ORLEANS - Take a long walk in this land of dreams and all you'll see is Obama. Obama lawn signs, Obama bumper stickers, window placards, lapel buttons, anklets. In souvenir stores, Obama t-shirts compete successfully with longtime best-sellers touting Bourbon Street and carousing alligators....

After eight years of George Bush, the foreign visitor can say with assurance that Obama frightens him not at all. He is not even that frightened by the sincerely troubled person who watches Fox News hoping for an honest reason to vote for John McCain.

There are those who believe that what this voter, scared but not racist, may be saying is, "please, Fox News, give me a reason to vote against Obama that doesn't include the word black."

But what the foreign visitor finds the most frightening, the most dangerous, is the voter who, after eight years of abject catastrophe, continues to pray "Please, please, give me a reason to vote for the person who says that things are all right, after all."

Someone like Bush.

[LeftishBrit]

1. Not sure if this exactly belongs in I/P, but it's from Ha'aretz, so I put it here

Interesting points!

[mike_c]

2. I'd recommend moving this to GD....

As you say, it really has nothing to do with the I/P forum.

[LeftishBrit]

3. Mods: could you please move this if it seems desirable?.

It's an Israeli visitor's perspective on Obama/McCain (he clearly supports Obama); but not about I/P as such, though the author usually writes about I/P issues. It would probably get more attention on GD, but I don't want to move it there and then have it moved back!