Interesting how the same facts about the same guy can come out of one source as tragic heroism, and out of another as a wife-beating, tomcatting drunk.
I fear we’re all too susceptible to the myth of the tragic hero, or at least to using it as a justification for admiring the contemptible. You and most of your readers don’t fall for it when it comes to Barack Obama, Sr., but I wonder how often we’ve all fallen for it in other cases.
This story is at least, better journalism than what passes for it in American mainstream media.
Interesting how the same facts about the same guy can come out of one source as tragic heroism, and out of another as a wife-beating, tomcatting drunk.
I fear we’re all too susceptible to the myth of the tragic hero, or at least to using it as a justification for admiring the contemptible. You and most of your readers don’t fall for it when it comes to Barack Obama, Sr., but I wonder how often we’ve all fallen for it in other cases.