Christians honor the Man of Sorrows

National Review, Feb 11, 2008

Christians honor the Man of Sorrows. Post-Christians honor suffering: who felt it most, and who is entitled to the greatest recompense. The Democratic party is answering these questions in the caucus room and the polling place. Hillary Clinton is the surrogate of her sex: "a woman running to break the highest and hardest glass ceiling," as she said on Meet the Press.

Barack Obama's camp meanwhile attacks attacks on him as racially motivated: When Bill Clinton called Obama's account of his opposition to the Iraq War a "fairy tale," and Mrs. Clinton said that wily pol Lyndon Johnson, rather than Martin Luther King Jr., had passed the Civil Rights Acts, both comments were depicted as racial slights. Lax immigration policy has produced a third suffering community, Hispanics, whom the Clinton camp cites as their anti-Obama firewall, even as the Obama camp has run Spanish-language ads in Nevada accusing Clinton supporters of disrupting the caucus of a largely Hispanic labor union. Hoist with his (and her) own petard, say conservatives, gleefully --and shortsightedly, for this noxious game afflicts us all.