Justin Webb's America

Obama: anti-American anthropologist?

• Justin Webb
• 10 Apr 08, 03:48 PM GMT

One of the fascinating questions about Barack Obama is whether his success will alter the sour view of the US that many in the outside world hold at the end of the Bush years. So I alert you to this Asia Times commentary - insightful, utterly wrong-headed, weird, incomprehensible all in one - and we can all look forward to much more in a similar vein.

Meanwhile in Washington there is a big fuss about the Pope - not the visit but this advert, which the local Catholic Church complained about and had pulled from the airwaves.

Redman Pinkerton - I agree with both yourcomments!

UPDATE:

And here is an amusing/frightening post-script to the discussion about American rationality and general knowledge: one college professor is concerned on the latter front.

Strikes me that having initally had no idea about rendition, his students now have a highly partisan notion based of the professor's dislike of it. Perhaps they will read more for themselves.

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