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Why is it that Barack Obama’s rhetoric sounds so strangely familiar?
Oh, I remember. There was this charming young fellow from Arkansas – what was the name of that town? Anyway, he had this awfully nice idea, about a “third way” alternative to right-left partisanship. I wonder what became of him and that darling wife of his….
Wait, yes, it’s all coming back to me. She’s pursued that third-way agenda herself, in the Senate and in a run for the presidency.
And so has the man from Honolulu/Indonesia/The South Side. (If this path doesn’t lead to the White House, it certainly qualifies him for one of those “New Sanfrankota” ads.)
So, which of our frontrunners do I prefer? To use the essential word of Obama’s generation: whatever. Read more









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