Did anyone ever read "Gone with the Wind?" (I'm talking reading the novel, not seeing the movie. The novel gives you insight into Scarlett O'Hara's thoughts and feelings that the movie can't do.) Remember at the end of the book, when Scarlett realizes she loves Rhett and never really loved Ashley? She realizes that she had made up in her imagination a pretty suit of clothes, and when Ashley came along, so handsome and so charming, she in her imagination put that suit of clothes on him and made them fit him whether they actually fit or not. In other words, she fell in love with her romanticized ideal of him, and not the person he really was, and all those years she loved a fantasy and not the real person at all.
It strikes me this is what Barack Obama's supporters are doing with him. People are so starved for a leader, someone who has the charisma and charm of a John F. Kennedy or a Ronald Reagan, and here comes Obama, so seemingly charismatic, such a glib speaker, so different, so smooth, and his ardent supporters are in love with a fantasy, not with the person he actually is. That's why all his questionable past alliances, the murky background about his birth, his obviously socialistic leanings, etc., don't matter to them. They have all "put a suit of pretty clothes" on him and are insisting on making that suit fit, whether it actually does or not. They all have this "my mind's made up, don't bother me with the facts" mentality.
Shame on us if we follow the blind into a ditch.
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