Self-Made Man Or Mysterious Stranger?

by Charles Krauthammer - August 31st, 2008 - Townhall.com

So where are the colleagues? The buddies? The political or spiritual soul mates? His most important spiritual adviser and mentor was Jeremiah Wright. But he's out. Then there's William Ayers, with whom he served on a board. He's out. Where are the others?

The oddity of this [Democratic] convention is that its central figure is the ultimate self-made man, a dazzling mysterious Gatsby. The palpable apprehension is that the anointed is a stranger -- a deeply engaging, elegant, brilliant stranger with whom the Democrats had a torrid affair. Having slowly woken up, they see the ring and wonder who exactly they married last night.

Of course there is Tony Rezko, the typical buddy you find in the cadre surrounding a Chicago politician like Barack Obama. However he is one more of the people in Barack Obama's life that he cannot be seen with now. How long does the list have to grow before the liberals are going to accept, they have nominated an "empty suit." A man who is unfit to be President.