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Elpidolatry On The Rampage

February 19, 2008

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8:24 pm

Daniel Larison

He was saying some smart things about the war, and then Obama started going meta again in his Houston rally speech.  Now he’s talking about the “meaning of hope” and his family background.  “If you talk about hope, you’re fuzzy-headed, you’re not realistic, you’re peddling in false hopes.”  He then repeats his boilerplate about what hope is not.  Now he’s bad-mouthing cynics–that doesn’t sound very unifying to me!

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Daniel Larison is a senior editor at TAC, where he also keeps a solo blog. He has been published in the New York Times Book Review, Dallas Morning News, World Politics Review, Politico Magazine, Orthodox Life, Front Porch Republic, The American Scene, and Culture11, and was a columnist for The Week. He holds a PhD in history from the University of Chicago, and resides in Lancaster, PA. Follow him on Twitter.

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