Reply #63: The fact that Obama is largely a media creation as opposed [View All]

[BenDavid]

to a person of any substance or sincerity probably explains why the media lets him get away with so much. After all, what movie director who, while expecting to make an Oscar-winning hit, would derail his own production by exposing it as a fraud and a scam? Obamamania is the Oscar-winning hit, and the media people who are backing it are not going to let Obama’s total lack of character and substance get in the way. **The following excerpt from Henryk Ibsen’s Peer Gynt should underscore what we mean by an empty suit. The protagonist contemplates his life by peeling away layers like those of an onion in an effort to discover his real self.Peer Gynt, in fact, had done far more during his lifetime than Barack Obama has ever done, yet he peels away the layers of his life to find nothing.

**What an enormous number of swathings!
Isn’t the kernel soon coming to light?



I’m blest if it is! To the innermost centre,
it’s nothing but swathings—each smaller and smaller.—
Nature is witty!