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31 Dec 2007 07:40 am
"The most interesting presidential candidacy since 1980"
George Will on Obama. He's dead-on about Steele's book which was engrossing at times and helped me integrate my own thoughts on the man. But ultimately it fails to convince - Steele understandably sees Obama as a threat to his own racial politics as well as that of Sharpton and Jackson. Will gets the central racial paradox of Obama:
Obama's candidacy fascinates because he represents radical autonomy: He has chosen his racial identity, but chosen not to make it matter much.
Read the whole thing.
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