Barack Obama is too open-minded to be any earthly good. Or so one should conclude from Daniel Henninger's excellent Wonderland column, "The Dumbing Down of Democracy." Henninger's is a very important bit of commentary. You should read it immediately.Such is a man who has been weaned on moral, political and ideological relativism: Mr. Obama can't commit to an absolute even if it was absolutely necessary. Of course what I've just said is patently false, as Mr. Obama does believe in absolutes. He just doesn't believe that absolutes should be pushed on anyone else. There needs to be room, you know, for everyone else's absolutes too. Absolute restraint, absolute equivalency, absolute tolerance, absolute self-doubt, absolute elasticity of definitions, absolute equivocation and ambiguity, absolute fairness; these, perhaps, comprise the very corpus, the viscera, of the Obama administration.
Barack Obama is an absolutist. Except when it comes to the foundational absolutes of his own country.
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