What really scares us about Barack Obama

Haaretz by Bradley Burston | Aug. 27, 2008 (Editorial)

But what the foreign visitor finds the most frightening, the most dangerous, is the voter who, after eight years of abject catastrophe, continues to pray "Please, please, give me a reason to vote for the person who says that things are all right, after all." Full Story »

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 by Chris Finnie - Oct. 1, 2008

From deToqueville on, foreigners have often been the most accurate observers of our culture. Burston continues this tradition with a frighteningly accurate analysis of the American psyche. Aside from the odd habit of referring to himself as "the foreign visitor," this is a pretty stinging critique of why we find ourselves in the messes we do.

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