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Obama, for and against

Sunday, 13th January 2008

I still have an open mind on the man of the hour, so I read Andrew Stephen's highly critical Statesman piece with some interest. Nothing fatal there, as far as I can tell, although it's a corrective to some of the more gushing profiles: "Those who know Obama say privately that he has a healthy sense of entitlement that often manifests itself in an imperious, thin-skinned manner." In the same magazine, Darcus Howe dips into his stock of C.L.R. James-isms to declare that Obama "represents "the most advanced stage in the development of black people in the United States."

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