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Obama, enigma
He's still defying analysis, says John Dickerson:
Each new president is a work in progress as his policy is matched up to his rhetoric. But Obama seems particularly unpredictable. Pragmatic is becoming the word of his presidency the way change and hope were the words of his campaign... The left and the right don't quite know what to make of him. He is, as John Heilemann wrote in New York magazine, a party of one.
Surprisingly perhaps, Dickerson sees interesting parallels with George W. Bush. And he unearths this telling 1996 quote from Obama himself:[Via Marbury]
No doubt the lunatic fringe will do their best to misinterpret "fabricate", but his meaning is plain enough to anyone familiar with "Dreams From My Father"."I think that in a certain way, I've tried all my life to fabricate a family through stories, memories, friends or ideas."
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