Critic in chief: Charles Krauthammer diagnoses Obama's policies and psyche
Obama may not realize he is a fallen human being. Every night on Fox and every Friday in the Post, Krauthammer gets to remind the president how fallen he is.
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Krauthammer, 63, sits atop one of the highest perches in the news media. Every night on Fox News' Special Report, he is the star of Bret Baier's political panel. Every Friday, his column appears in the Washington Post and scores of other papers (he won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for commentary). Among commentators on the Right, he is rivaled only by his friend George F. Will, an even more widely syndicated columnist and a recent addition to the Fox News team.This month, Krauthammer published his first book: a collection of his essays, columns, articles, and speeches, titled Things That Matter.
Read his writings, and you’ll see a man whose conservatism echoes the late British philosopher Michael Oakeshott more than Ted Cruz: conservatism as a disposition rather than an ideology.
Krauthammer believes society needs clearly drawn moral lines (he argues for them on stem cell research). He believes in universal ideas of justice and freedom, but he warns that our efforts to secure them sometimes backfire (thus a foreign policy realism that tempers his fierce hawkishness). He makes no bones about his rightward slant, but he praises “virtues of ideological moderation.”
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Krauthammer characterizes Obama’s message in that speech as, “I didn’t come here to tinker. ... I’m here to change America, in a social democratic way — the European model.”
Europe has much wider bounds of socially permissible opinion, and Krauthammer finds that destructive. “In the political culture I grew up in [in Canada], which was fairly radical in the late ’60s, there were real fascists and real communists.” But “in the American political system, one of the cliches is that the game is played between the 40-yard lines.” He’d like to keep it that way.
Dr. Krauthammer also worries about Obama’s psychology. He’s called Obama a “narcissist,” and he tells me that matters: “He’s the least experienced, least-known president probably in the history of the United States. ... If you’re coming in as a novice, you ought to have some humility in deciding where you want to go and take the country.”
Instead, Obama came to office promising to take up “the work of remaking America,” as he put it in his inaugural address. He dismissed those “who question the scale of our ambitions, who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans.”
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