Jim Manzi didn't like the tenor of Obama's Wesleyan speech:
He smugly put himself forward as an exemplar of the well-lived life, and proceeded from this to the more politically-significant solipsism of imaging how much better America would be if it were filled with people who were a lot more like Barack Obama.
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2008/05/an-outbreak-of-smug/216020/
