{"id":14812,"date":"2011-07-15T09:20:39","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T16:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=14812"},"modified":"2011-07-15T09:20:44","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T16:20:44","slug":"just-how-carefully-chosen-was-the-chosen-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/14812\/just-how-carefully-chosen-was-the-chosen-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Just how carefully chosen was The Chosen One?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Angelo Codevilla, who brought us last year’s stunning essay, America’s ruling Class<\/a>, is back again with an attempt at filling in the many, many blank pages in Barrack Hussein Obama’s back-story:<\/a><\/p>\n

In our time, asking how a young man of scarce achievement got into position to win the Democratic Party’s nomination for president courts the contemporary synonyms for “impious”: “birther,” “conspiracy theorist,” and, of course, “racist.” Granted, to inquire into what formed a president is not as important as to understand what he does. Nevertheless, because fully to know where anyone is going requires grasping whence he comes, let us open ourselves to wonder how, minus miracles, a 10-year-old boy without obvious talent who had lived in Indonesia since age six ends up with an eight-year scholarship to Hawaii’s most exclusive school; a scholarship to Occidental College; a transfer into Columbia University; acceptance into Harvard Law School, and editorship of its law review; and how he goes from job to prestigious job without apparently mastering any of the previous ones. No wonder some of Barack Obama’s supporters treat him as if he were anointed by an extraterrestrial power.<\/p>\n

No less an object of awe and curiosity is the seamlessness of Obama’s mentality. Without marbling or inconsistency, it is serviceable as a definition of contemporary American leftism, and leads one to wonder what earthly environment could have produced such a pure specimen.<\/p>\n

Intellectually, Obama has always been a consumer, having left no record of formulating new ideas or of penetrating old ones. Politically, he is a follower and figurehead: having grown up in the ever branching stream of socialist voluntary organizations, he surfed its leftward eddies, never forming or leading a faction. He was handed a safe seat in the Illinois state senate, a nearly safe one in the U.S. Senate, and was surprised when Harry Reid informed him that influential Democrats wanted to run him for president. The Democratic campaign of 2008 pushed against an open door. As president, he rides his party’s center of gravity.<\/p>\n

In short, Barack Obama himself is not that remarkable. He can give a rousing political speech, of course, but Read more<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Angelo Codevilla, who brought us last year’s stunning essay, America’s ruling Class, is back again with an attempt at filling in the many, many blank pages in Barrack Hussein Obama’s back-story: In our time, asking how a young man of scarce achievement got into position to win the Democratic Party’s nomination for president courts the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[251,29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14812","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-big-mother","7":"category-group-therapy","9":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7146,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/7146\/not-ideology-terminology\/","url_meta":{"origin":14812,"position":0},"title":"Not Ideology… Terminology","author":"Sean Purcell","date":"March 2, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Do you still wonder whether banks will be nationalized?\u00a0 Does the idea of an auto manufacturer declaring bankruptcy scare you even just a little?\u00a0 Tell me you're not still engaged in any discussions on whether or not the response to our economic crisis has been a step toward \"socialism!\"\u00a0 Please,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Big Mother"","block_context":{"text":"Big Mother","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/big-mother\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5485,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/5485\/how-the-new-president-is-going-to-prolong-the-housing-bust\/","url_meta":{"origin":14812,"position":1},"title":"How the new president is going to prolong the housing bust","author":"Greg Swann","date":"November 10, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"This is my column for this week from the Arizona Republic (permanent link). \u00a0How the new president is going to prolong the housing bust I'm writing this before the election, so I don't know who will have won by the time you read this. 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