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| I grew up; Obama didn't |
| 2008-04-25 |
| Roger L. Simon, Pajamas Media I was once sympathetic to the Weather Underground. But I’m not running for President. I was also a donor to the Black Panther Party Breakfast Program But I’m not running for President. Still, that was a long time ago. Does it matter now? Probably not. But I didn’t stay friends with these people. I grew up and lived a life. I put away childish things, as it is written. Now Barack Obama is younger than I am, by more than a decade, but he is running for President and he didn’t, as they say, entirely put away childish things. In fact, he cleaved to some of them. . . . I am an agnostic, so it is perhaps presumptuous of me to be quoting the Bible. But it is certainly great literature and there is no better explanation for why I would have difficulty voting for Barack Obama than those magnificent phrases from First Corinithians: “When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.” (I Cor. 13:11) |
| Posted by:Mike |