Comments on: Weekend open thread http://sistertoldjah.com/archives/2008/07/26/weekend-open-thread-46/ Don't dis or dismiss this miss! Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:59:04 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Great White Rat http://sistertoldjah.com/archives/2008/07/26/weekend-open-thread-46/comment-page-1/#comment-746135 Great White Rat Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:11:03 +0000 http://sistertoldjah.com/?p=6226#comment-746135 From today's Houston Chronicle: <a href="http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/outlook/5908169.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><strong>Kathleen Parker</strong></a> ties Obama's belief in his own infallibility with his inability to outline a coherent Iraq policy - and also admit that the surge worked. <blockquote>Obama has fallen to pride in part because he has bought his own myth. By staking his future on a past of supernatural vision, he has made it difficult to admit human fault. The magic isn't working anymore. And Obama, the visionary one, can't even see what everyone else sees: He was wrong. </blockquote> From today’s Houston Chronicle: Kathleen Parker ties Obama’s belief in his own infallibility with his inability to outline a coherent Iraq policy – and also admit that the surge worked.

Obama has fallen to pride in part because he has bought his own myth. By staking his future on a past of supernatural vision, he has made it difficult to admit human fault. The magic isn’t working anymore. And Obama, the visionary one, can’t even see what everyone else sees: He was wrong.

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