Compare and contrast
The professor-in-chief discusses the crisis that is oft-predicted but never quite seems to arrive:
“I face this challenge with profound humility…I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this…was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal…”
The dropout discusses the same:
As Bill Buckley said: “I am obliged to confess I should sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University.” Too late for that now.
As a liberal columnist friend of ours observed, Obama is in many ways the “generic Democrat” you see in opinion polls. Certainly his views seem to be typical of the left of the Democratic Party. What distinguishes Obama is his audacity — his remarkable and openly expressed grandiose sense of destiny. Any man who produces an autobiography at the age of 33 should never be underestimated.