Sowell on Obama

Once again, Thomas Sowell shows why he is one of our favorite modern thinkers/writers.

No doubt it is only a matter of time before there is a black president, just as it was only a matter of time before Paul Waner got his 3,000th hit. The issue is whether we want to reach that landmark so badly that we are willing to overlook how questionably that landmark is reached.

What's so questionable about Obama? Is he the candidate of change--which is something we all would like to see?

Although Senator Obama has presented himself as the candidate of new things — using the mantra of “change” endlessly — the cold fact is that virtually everything he says about domestic policy is straight out of the 1960s and virtually everything he says about foreign policy is straight out of the 1930s . . ..We paid a terrible price for such 1960s notions in the years that followed . . . [while the 1930's foreign policy] approach, in the name of peace, is what led to the most catastrophic war in human history.