What if Senator Obama wins and these “next architect” do not become architects? What does the future hold if the disappointment is wide spread?

I honestly think that if Obama becomes President, the example he has provided illustrating that a person isn’t inherently limited to any arbitrary limit will be his greatest contribution to history. But it will also be the greatest potential source of betrayal. The morning after he wins everyone in the video above will discover that while Obama lives in the White House, they will still live in Kansas City. The problem with Obama’s campaign is that there is too much of magical about it. I think readers in the Third World will immediately see where I’m going. It’s easy to make people in the Third World believe in magic.

But what appears to be magic is really, on closer inspection, effort and sweat. Obama has worked hard and has been helped by political correctness. He has also been aided by luck. But to an outside observer his progress may appear effortless. So they’ll think it’s easy. And when they discover it isn’t, that’s when the sense of betrayal sets in. How many attendees at this Community Leadership Academy think they’ve been vouchsafed the magic formula? The one they came for? How many will be disappointed to discover they haven’t really received it?

Nothing so parts a person from his money as a miracle. The greatest miracles are those who can effortlessly abstract money from your wallet. I knew a crooked pastor back when. He wasn’t always a pastor. Before becoming a man of the cloth he was the administrator of a public school teacher’s pension fund, which he thoroughly looted. Then, having paid off a judge to ensure he escaped the puny toils of Philippine justice, he decided, after a decent interval, to become a preacher man, where he did a roaring trade confiding the secrets to salvation to the credulous, in exchange for consideration. Of course, it’s doubtful whether he knew the first thing about salvation. But that made surprisingly little difference; he provided the appearance of knowing something. And in this world, pretending to know is almost as good as actually knowing, at least when before those who don’t know better. Barnum dictum that “there’s a sucker born every minute” is the most profound and cynical commentary of the human condition ever written.