Alien Heart

By DOROTHY RABINOWITZ
WSJ OPINION JUNE 9, 2010
The Alien in the White House
The distance between the president and the people is beginning to be revealed.

Those qualities to be expected in a president ... were a matter of identification with the nation and to all that binds its people together in pride and allegiance. These are feelings held deep in American hearts, unvoiced mostly, but unmistakably there and not only on the Fourth of July.

A great part of America now understands that this president's sense of identification lies elsewhere, and is in profound ways unlike theirs. He is hard put to sound convincingly like the leader of the nation, because he is, at heart and by instinct, the voice mainly of his ideological class. He is the alien in the White House, a matter having nothing to do with delusions about his birthplace cherished by the demented fringe.

Yes, Ms. Rabinowitz, as always you are right.
The Birthers are a fringe -- but no more deluded or demented than the Obama true believers'n'voters themselves -- to say nothing of his groupies in the press.
Chris "Thrill Up My Leg" Matthews anyone?
Evan "Sort of a God" Thomas anyone?
Now that's delusion and dementia.
Updatery: Also covered here at Contentions.
And Hugh Hewitt read the whole thing on his radio show this afternoon...but not until after discussing Nebraska joining the Big Ten...