Two great articles in the FIRST THINGS blogs today:
The one by Spengler (David Goldman, associate editor), he informs us, was something he wrote for his Spengler column in Asia Times, which refused to publish it! That has to be a first in media Obamania, to refuse to publish a longtime columnist's piece - especially since Spengler had started criticizing Obama back when he was still a candidate, and that his critiques are always supported by objective fact, as this one is.
www.firstthings.com/blogs/spengler/
(Scroll down - it comes after the Mideast interview)
It is entitled 'Obama in Nightmare Alley' and examines the US President's narcissistic personality (and also incidentally confirms the widespread rumor earlier that Obama's first campaign autobiography,
Dreams of My Father, was, in fact, ghost-written by unrepentant Weather Underground bomber and Chicago crony Bill Ayers).
The one by the redoubtable Anchoress (Elizabeth Scalia)
www.firstthings.com/blogs/theanchoress/
is a look at the reasons Bush-haters cite for why they hate Bush, and shows how Obama is doing virtually the same things, but they don't 'hate him' for it.
In scrolling down to that Oct. 12 entry, you will not miss her two later entries about
the spiritual pleasures of praying the Liturgy of the Hours, and what she cites from
nuns telling their experience of genocide and other horrors at the current Synodal assembly.
And it would be worth your while to check out the daily English summaries of the Synodal interventions on
www.vatican.va/news_services/press/sinodo/documents/bollettino_23_ii_speciale-africa-2009/bollettino_23_ii_speciale-africa-2009_index...
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