Obama-World: Where You Can if You Will

Nothing illustrates the nature of psychological neoteny and academic lobotomy so much as popular movements divorced from reality. Emotion empty of reason. Take the Obama campaign for US President.

Senator Obama wrote his memoir "Dreams of My Father" 13 years ago in 1995. In that book, Obama presents the formative years of his life, and the important intellectual and emotional inputs that went into making Barack the boy into Senator Obama, candidate of hope. Yet, what proportion of Obama-joiners have read the book and considered its importance?

One of the most important influences in Obama's life has been the Reverend Jeremiah Wright. In 2006 alone, Obama donated $22,500 to Rev. Wright's church--where Obama and his family are long-time members. A large proportion of Obama supporters are ignoring Obama's 1995 book, and his mentor Jeremiah Wright. That group of consciously oblivious supporters apparently includes the US national mainstream media. And that is not all the US MSM is ignoring.

You might say, the US presidential campaign is in the throes of hope without foundation. But it is actually hope based upon wishful thinking. Wishful thinking without foundation. I can understand why youthful and naive voters would indulge in such wishful thinking. I can understand why US black voters, raised under almost forty years worth of entitlement thinking would indulge in a rather darker form of wishful thinking. But I cannot understand the national news media's willingness to ignore its public trust and obligation to present the news.

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