TODAY'S "MUST READ" – AT 9:16 A.M. ET:  We've said repeatedly that British journalists have often had the sharpest take on Obama.  It's happened again.  Mary Ellen Synon, in the Daily Mail, explains why, in this election campaign, Obama has become a liability to the Democratic Party:

Sarah Palin and the Tea Party Express have roared right through the latest round of Republican Party primaries this week, rattling the party establishment and terrifying the Democrats.

For those of you who are trained in the fastidious ways of the British ‘liberalism’ and are therefore shocked and can’t think why the American Right is gaining such strength, here’s the reason: Barack Obama.

Americans are waking up to the fact that they have elected a man as president who is every inch an exotic creature. Which was rather fun at first.

The problem is, America is discovering that Mr Obama has brought more than just a foreign name and an interesting racial mix to the White House. He has brought a whole foreign way of thinking. And Americans don’t like it.

Millions of them now want national leadership with a more star-spangled way of looking at the world...

That's a wonderful way of putting it.  Now please read the rest of the article, which discusses a conversation being held here, across the internet, about an article by Dinesh D’Souza that claims that Obama is obsessed with the anti-colonialist mentality of his father, although colonialism hasn't been a problem for half a century.

The Daily Mail piece concludes:

Yet colonialism today is a dead issue. As Mr D’Souza says: ‘Emerging market economies such as China, India, Chile and Indonesia have solved the problem of backwardness; they are exploiting their labour advantage and growing much faster than the US.’

However, instead of readying America for the challenge, the man in the White House is ‘trapped in his father’s time machine. The philandering, inebriated African socialist, who raged against the world for denying him the realisation of his anti-colonial ambitions, is now setting the nation’s agenda through the reincarnation of his dreams in his son.’

America is being run by the ghost of a dead Luo tribesman of the 1950s.

Great stuff.  Do read, do read.

September 16, 2010