WHAT IS BARACK OBAMA? – AT 9:15 A.M. ET:  The great Michael Ledeen, who has been more right on Iran than any scholar out there, now turns his attention to a deft analysis, at Pajamas Media, of Barack Obama, what he is, and why.  Required reading, I think.  Thanks to Ed Lasky of American Thinker for alerting us to this. 

Obama, Ledeen says, should be seen as a guy in a classroom.

Because he’s the stereotypical American undergrad at a stereotypical Ivy League college in the age of political correctness.

He doesn’t much like America or Americans, or the “former colonial powers” like Britain. Like so many would-be intellectuals, he admires lefty writers and screenwriters and actors and actresses. He likes the downtrodden, like the Palestinians, but he’s overcome with awe for the occasional cool (non-Western) monarch or emperor (whether Arab or Chinese). He probably has a Che tee shirt tucked away in a drawer, don’t you think?

He doesn’t know much history...

The most important thing to this president is how you feel and what you say, not all those annoying facts...

And, like most students, when the debate goes badly for him, the president makes fun of his critics–when he actually lets them talk a little bit....

As a typical undergrad, Obama loves to talk, and loves to talk about peace and justice. You know, the really important things. His new nuclear policy is right out of a college bull session: “Why don’t we just promise not to use them?” Nukes are bad, ugly things. Doesn’t everyone agree that the world would be better off without them?

Well, grownups don’t necessarily agree. It all depends how you get there, and what the others do along the way. We do have real enemies, but our undergrad-president understands their ire and shares their pain...

Finally, he doesn’t seem to realize what a mess he’s making. And when he gets his grades, he blames the professors (we the people, in this case) for being unfair...

That’s the sort we’ve been graduating for a generation or more, isn’t it?   Did you really think we’d never get one as president?

Great stuff.  Read the whole thing.

April 8, 2010