Shelby Steele, a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution provides the most erudite analysis to date of our current president, in today's Wall Street Journal.
This is a Must Read to understand how Barack Obama got elected and "became arguably the least known man ever to step into the American presidency."
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Barack Obama, elegant and professorially articulate, was an invitation to sophistication that America simply could not bring itself to turn down. If "hope and change" was an empty political slogan, it was also beautiful clothing that people could passionately describe without ever having seen.
He aspires to be "post-ideological," "post-racial" and "post-partisan," which is to say that he defines himself by a series of "nots"—thus implying that being nothing is better than being something. He tries to make a politics out of emptiness itself.
You can read the full article HERE.
