has an interesting column at Pajamas Media today on Barack Obama. Bawer takes a look at the psychological dynamic of Obama's feelings towards his black father and white mother and concludes that something disturbing is amiss:What does it say about the young Obama that he was well-nigh obsessed with his vain braggart of an absentee father but trivialized his mother�s accomplishments? What does it mean that he himself plainly can�t see that his father comes off in these pages as a world-class jerk and his mother as a woman of admirable self-discipline and quiet achievement? What does it mean that throughout his account of his work as a community organizer in Chicago, Obama himself is in sharp focus while the underprivileged folks he�s supposedly trying to help are hazy figures in the distant background? What does it mean that some of the characters in this book � whom one would otherwise assume to be important people in his life � are, as he admits in the introduction, composites? What does it mean that despite his fixation on his father and his Kenyan kin, their religion (Islam) is barely mentioned, and that in the most substantial reference to it, he gives a genial thumbs-up to his brother�s newfound religious fervor?
Bawer asks a lot of important questions about Obama's background that relate to what kind of president he would make. Take a look.