British MP and former Saddam Hussein flunky George Galloway, who for all intents and purposes is the West’s only sitting Ba’athist politician, has endorsed Barack Obama in today’s Daily Record. To get a handle on Galloway’s inverted sense of virtue, consider the following quote from the article
“This movie star-looking man, with his lovely family and his Bobby Kennedy-type speeches: it all looks and feels like a Hollywood story starring Sidney Poitier.”
That cringe-inducing slice of British Leonard Bernsteinism is supposed to be his recommendation of the Illinois senator for the office of President.
No serious person can accuse Barack Obama of being an ideological co-traveler of Galloway’s. Obama’s leftish boilerplate hasn’t a thing to do with Galloway’s pro-jihad spleen. However, Obama is to blame, in some sense, for attracting such unwanted admiration. As long as he remains unwilling to declare himself on specific policies, there’s a piece of Barack Obama on offer to every fringy demagogue and anti-American extremist with CNN. His dictum of change is so vague as to cast a dangerously wide net. All Obama speaks about is belief, hope, and ending “the disastrous policies of the current administration.” That’s a message with a lot of nasty takers. He can start carving out a discernible political ideology by repudiating the enthusiasm of a disgraceful fifth-columnist like Galloway.
