-By Warner Todd Huston
Harry Reid made a mistake. I know that is over generalized so I’ll narrow it down to a specific mistake because there are far too many from which to choose. The mistake I am taking about is in the addendum to his book titled “The Good Fight,” ghost written by Mark Warren, that is about to come out in paperback.
Reid added a 15-page epilogue to the paperback version that confirms Obama’s arrogance. In it, Reid claims to have approached Obama after a speech on Bush’s war policies that Reid heard Obama give just after becoming the Junior Senator from Illinois. After congratulating Obama on the speech, Reid recounts that Obama replied, “I have a gift, Harry.”
Well, that wasn’t too self-congratulatory, too arrogant, what it now?
Reid says his wife told him not to add this story to the book because it confirms everyone’s impression that Obama is an arrogant little cuss. Reid didn’t listen.
Reid should have listened to his wife. She is obviously the smarter of the two.
Reid also indulged in a little historical revisionism by claiming he always just knew that Obama would make a great presidential candidate. Reid claims he urged Barack to run for president as far back as 2006. This is sort of like saying after the game was over that you always knew which team would win. Or maybe like going home empty handed from fishing but telling everyone you almost caught the biggest fish ever seen by man. Easy to say. Not so easy to prove.
Anyway, I doubt this book is worth wasting money on and it is interesting the publishers are even wasting the effort to issue a paperback version of Reid’s fish tales, but this little tidbit detailing Obama’s arrogance is pretty revealing.
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer, has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and is featured on many websites such as newsbusters.org, RedState.com, Human Events Magazine, AmericanDailyReview.com, townhall.com, New Media Journal, Men’s News Daily and the New Media Alliance among many, many others. Additionally, he has been a frequent guest on talk-radio programs to discuss his opinion editorials and current events and is currently the co-host of “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Conservatism” heard on BlogTalkRadio. He has also written for several history magazines and appears in the new book “Americans on Politics, Policy and Pop Culture” which can be purchased on amazon.com. He is also the owner and operator of publiusforum.com. Feel free to contact him with any comments or questions : EMAIL Warner Todd Huston
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All right, hold on a minute! If he’s so arrogant, doesn’t the idea of a world “apology tour” make no sense? I mean, which talking point do you people want to pursue?
Ah, but your mistake is in assuming that he is apologizing for himself. He is not. In fact, he doesn’t consider himself any real part of the US. He is THE ONE. All that other stuff is America’s fault. Not his!
Ohhhhh.
NOW you guys like nuance.
LOL