BARACK AND WINNIE - AT 6:50 A.M. ET:  Superb historian Arthur Herman notes that British Prime Minister Gordon Brown gave President Obama a set of Sir Martin Gilbert's multi-volume biography of Winston Churchill.  But, Herman believes, Obama will never read it because he has contempt for Churchill and the British tradition:

...it's a shame that Obama will never read Sir Martin's work. If he did, he'd discover how one man can inspire a people with the notion that liberty is worth defending, not just in prosperity but in a nation's darkest days.

He might also learn why, not so long ago, Americans and Britons felt compelled to join forces to oppose a generation of would-be political messiahs who imagined they could make a better world by stifling that legacy of liberty.

COMMENT:  I like the part about the would-be political messiahs.  Hmm.

March 9, 2009