National Review prints best anti-Obama article you've never read

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National Review Nov 3 2008 issue

Yesterday, my November 3 issue of National Review arrived in the mail. It contains the most impressive argument against electing Barack Obama I have read so far.

Entitled "Obama's Core," this piece by Michael Knox Beran has nothing to do with Obama's birth certificate or his being a "secret Muslim" or any of those conspiracy theories.

Instead, Beran makes the inarguable case that Obama is wrong for America because the candidate is, to be charitable, ambiguous about the greatness of America and Western Civilization. Obama loves himself, his "story" (after all, he's already written not one but two memoirs at age 47!)  more than his country. That is not usually part of any President's job description.

I'll quote a few paragraphs here. However, I'd urge you to purchase this issue at the newsstand (it is not available at NRO.com) and  read "Obama's Core" and pass it along...

Beran writes, in part:

When Obama does speak of the value of American culture and the larger civilization of which it is a part, there is invariably a false note. As "long as I live," he said in Philadelphia in March, "I will never forget that in no other country on earth is my story even possible." The worthiness of the conviction is tempered by its narcissism; it is as though Pericles, in his funeral oration, offered as proof of the greatness of Athens the fact that it had made his own "story" possible.

Barack Obama is not the right leader to preside over this moment of crisis in the West, when the old civilization is dying in Europe and has lost its hold on the greater part of this country's ruling classes. John McCain is the better choice. His experience has given him a keener sense of history and of the world. Some people are skilled in talking about the defense of freedom and civilization; McCain has actually defended them. He is not so stirring an orator as the senator from Illinois. But he has only to walk into the room, and his presence sounds the theme.