Bill Krystol on Obama
Written on the original Movable Type site and recovered from the Internet Archive.
This resonates for me:
“Obama tends too much toward the preening self-regard of Bill Clinton,
the patronizing elitism of Al Gore and the haughty liberalism of John
Kerry. It’s fitting that the alternative to Obama will be John McCain.
He makes no grand claim to fix our souls. He doesn’t think he’s the
one everyone has been waiting for. He’s more proud of his country than
of himself. And his patriotism has consisted of deeds more challenging
than “speaking out on issues.”“