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14 Jul 2008 12:57 pm
Post-Modern Steel
This Nate Silver post strikes me as about right:
"That does not mean that the Obama that emerges
from Lizza's piece is particularly warm and cuddly. He is certainly a
very political creature, and there is something a little steely and postmodern
about it all. But it is also not clear that Obama is playing some kind
of angle. He seems, rather, to hold a lot of fairly mainstream,
somewhat empirically-driven views -- still an idealist in certain ways,
but not highly ideological. The White House may represent to him some
sort of final step in his self-actualization, but he's not going there
to get a blow job, or to play out some sort of Oedipal complex. It's
all actually sort of ... boring."
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