Conservatives’ case against Obama: where’s the beef?

In his diffuse and disorganized 4,000 word article about Barack Obama in The American Conservative Steve Sailer signally fails to make the case about Obama’s supposed racial hangups that he claims to make. For example, Sailer writes: “And yet, at least through age 33 when he wrote Dreams from My Father, he found solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against his mother’s race.” But Sailer doesn’t demonstrate this. Yes, as Sailer points out, Obama has written frankly about his ambivalent racial feelings and his search for identity that you would expect the son of an African man and a white American woman to have undergone, but nothing that adds up to what Sailer is saying.

I carry no brief for Obama. I’m completely open to the idea that he is an anti-white “race man,” as many right-wingers keep telling me he is. I just haven’t seen the evidence for it.

Update: Here is some significant evidence.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at March 16, 2007 09:05 PM | Send