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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Katelew who wrote (62847)5/1/2008 5:42:25 PM
From: JohnM   of 542467
 
Nothing really wrong with this, of course, and all candidates are fashioned to some extent. For me, though, it jars with the expectation that he would somehow be a new, unique, and specially gifted POTUS.

Interesting. I guess I've never seen him as new in the sense you have. I've always assumed that getting the local nomination for the state senate (jumping over others to get that) and getting the nomination for the US senate (ditto, despite the unusual primary and general campaigns), meant that Obama was both unusually ambitious and knew how to play the game better than others. And others saw him that way.

But I've also always seen him as more than that. Dick Durbin is that and one of my favorite senators but he doesn't have the "more" that Obama does.
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