Peggy Noonan puts words to my unease with Senator Obama becoming President Obama.

Sen. Obama’s rise is not about a stand or an issue or a question; it is about Sen. Obama. People project their hopes on him, he says.

He’s exactly right. Just so we all know it’s projection.

He doesn’t have an issue, he has a thousand issues, which is the same as having none, in the sense that a speech about everything is a speech about nothing. And on those issues he seems not so much to be guided by philosophy as by impulses, sentiments.

A Democratic politician guided by impulses and sentiments rather than philosophy. A bit redundant, don’t you think? That’s the very definition of a Democrat.

He’s a savvy politicaian to say the least. There’s a genius to his method. Taking a pronounced stand on any issue would alienate somebody. Least this way people think he stands for the same things they do.

What ever happened to the great statesmen of the Democratic party? Men who put philosophy and principles before themselves. In the current field of contenders for 2008, I see none.

Where are they in the Republican party for that matter?

(via Tim Chapman)