Obama’s Book Quotes Miss Context
I’m standing back from this Sen. Obama video. It takes tv quotes from him, his wife, and Jeremiah Wright and adds passages from his book Dreams from My Father. I think it’s misleading because my impression of the book (I’ve not read it) is it’s about Obama’s complex journey into adulthood. Being of mixed race and trying to find one’s identity will cause a host of conflicting thoughts to zip through one’s brain.
Dan Collins writes,
I respect Gateway Pundit a lot, but I think that there’s too little context here, and that it rehearses things that we already know, though in some cases the quotations from Dreams from My Father in text and/or audio are instructive. That is to say, some of this is liable to be meant more as confessional than as assertive; or at least I’d hope that that was the case, since he’s often recounting things he thought or felt as a younger, presumably more self-divided individual.
There’s a pessimism between the lines of Obama’s speeches–and more blatant when Michelle Obama speaks. However, pulling out quotes and saying, “Gotcha!” won’t do the trick.
While I disagree strongly with Obama’s liberal approach to government and think his “new politics” are a farce I don’t hate him. I don’t have animosity towards him. He seems like a pleasant enough guy even though I don’t want him to be President.
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