Fluent, Smooth, and Black: Not Good Enough, Sez Old Man Sowell

Conservative elder statesman Thomas Sowell writes:

Perhaps
nothing so captures the superficial, frivolous and irresponsible spirit
of our times like the sudden boomlet for Barack Obama as a candidate
for President of the United States.

He is a bright, personable and articulate young man
but what has he ever actually accomplished that would qualify him for
the highest office in the nation and the leadership of the free world?

This is
no criticism of Senator Obama. He has been in the Senate only a couple
of years. Maybe a decade from now he will have crafted enough important
legislation, or distinguished himself in some other way, as to be
someone worth considering for President. But today, just because he is
fluent, smooth and black?

Ouch.

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