Saturday, May 10, 2008

Obama's American History

Barack Obama (via the Instapundit): "I trust the American people to understand that it is not weakness, but wisdom to talk not just to our friends, but to our enemies, like Roosevelt did, and Kennedy did, and Truman did."

For all his extensive and exquisite Ivy League education, it astonishes Obama wasn't able to squeeze in a history elective, or two. I am in no way ready to call the Democratic nomination for Obama, not so long as Hillary Clinton has a pulse. If he does manage to grab it, however, appalling displays of ignorance like the above should persuade most voters the man has no business whatever heading the most powerful nation on earth; having his finger near the button. It will be a debacle for the Democrats proportionate to the Nixon-McGovern rout of 1972.

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