Grave Digging

The Right has been musing about Obama's late father--a dyed-in-the-wool commie and from a Muslim family--for some time now, with most of the musing being irrelevant since the junior Obama was abandoned by his father. Now it's the Left's turn.

At Politico, Ben Smith features an article written by the senior Obama, in which the latter discusses the Kenyan president's economic positions; Senior is basically asking whether the president should impose hardcore Communism on his country or go with baby steps. The president in question? The Kenyan Republic's first, Jomo Kenyatta. The year? 1965.

You know what? I am really less than impressed with the ability of all too many "professionals" to separate what matters from what does not--the ability to analyze information.

A bit of assistance: if a person has only had contact with his/her father twice in a lifetime, it's pretty much impossible for that father to have any meaningful influence on that person's political ideology. (Do I have to repeat myself about my own father and our divergent politics?)

Yeah, I'm helping the Left but...call it charity.

Now another decision looms--do I want to read some sixties-era economic tome written by some African dude who just received his undergrad?

(Thanks to Ed Morrissey)

Comments

[Annoying Old Guy]

Even if the son writes a book about his father and how much his father's dreams meant to him?

[baldilocks]

I'm a little hedgy on that part. Since I know almost exactly how he feels--except that my father's alive--I have a tendency to cut him some slack in this area.

When it comes to things American, however, it's on. As you know.

[AH·C]

What I'm curious about is his mother's attitude towards Senior after he cut out. Did she pump him up, or romanticize the "legend" in relating to Junior or what? In any case, Junior was apparently hardwired to liberalism by the type of people who surrounded him in almost all thru life.

[snaggletoothie]

I'm probably to the right of you on many issues but you're correct when you refuse to hold junior responsible for senior's positions. And if one wants to find reasons to oppose Obama, his own words are sufficient