as the real deal.

With less impressionable types, such as voters, Senator Obama is having a tougher time. The Philly speech is emblematic of his most pressing problem: the gap — indeed, full-sized canyon — that’s opening up between the rhetorical magic and the reality. That’s
the difference between a simulacrum and a genuinely great speech. The gaseous platitudes of hope and change and unity no longer seem to fit the choices of Obama’s adult life. Oddly enough, the shrewdest appraisal of the Senator’s speechifying “magic” came from Jeremiah Wright himself. “He’s a politician,” said the Reverend. “He says what he has to say as a politician… He does what politicians do.”

The notion that the Amazing Obama might be just another politician doing what politicians do seems to have affronted the senator more than any of the stuff about America being no different from al-Qaeda and the government inventing AIDs to kill black people.

It's a pretty hard slam, but there's not much evidence to it. Just seems like a guy who doesn't like Obama.

Mark Steyn is a guy who doesn't like neo-Marxists!

but there's not much evidence to it.

Hilarious. As if evidence were important.

I clipped a different part of this same article. I give this article a 7 out of 10 as far as Steyn usually goes. However, for someone (Masbury) to claim to have a clue what is going on in the world and worships 'Mother Jones', while not having a clue who Mark Steyn is, is par for the course.

'Mother Jones'/Mark Steyn

MoJo's still stuck in the 60's, but I have to admit, I like to visit the site for a couple of laughs