The Indefinable Barack Obama by Mark Steyn on National Review Online
The Dow’s nose-diving, stocks are looking at their worst year since 1937. Last Tuesday, we were offered the curious spectacle of two candidates both of whom essentially take the same line on this stuff, Wall Street greed, special interests, lobbyists, the usual populist boilerplate. And yet for a pair of guys who both believe in big-government solutions everything they said seemed small and tinny. Epic events swirled all around, but the two men fighting to lead the global superpower could only joust with cardboard swords: Why, Obama was such a bold leader on this issue that only two years ago he “sent a letter” to somebody or other. Why, long before Obama sent his letter, McCain “issued a statement.” Rarely has the gulf between interesting times and the paperwork of “big government” yawned so widely.
