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David Garrows new biography of Barack Obama, Rising Star, contains this passage from an unpublished paper Obama is said to have written while a Harvard law student:

[Americans have] a continuing normative commitment to the ideals of individual freedom and mobility, values that extend far beyond the issue of race in the American mind. The depth of this commitment may be summarily dismissed as the unfounded optimism of the average AmericanI may not be Donald Trump now, but just you wait; if I dont make it, my children will.

First of allheh! Trump gets the last laugh once again.

Second: when will we kill the word normative? (Nota bene: I never use the word in the classroom, ever. And I banish it from my writing, except to ridicule it. Its a sign of intellectual laziness and shallowness.)

Third: Unfounded optimism of the average American? Just a minuteI thought one part of the essential American creed is that any average American can grow up to be president. Didnt Obama prove that to be true? So whats his problem?

Read the original:
Everything Wrong with Obama in Two SentencesWith a Twist - Power Line (blog)