Barack Obama, walking contradiction
Gerald Baker of The Times of London herein explains to his noncomprehending fellow Europeans why Barack Obama is in trouble in this election.
The reason is quite simple: the Obama of rhetoric bears absolutely no resemblance to the Obama of policy and practice.
He's not saying that Obama is a hypocrite. Instead, he's saying that the creature of Chicago's corrupt Democratic machine who has always refused to side with the reformers cannot now plausibly run as a reformer, and that the consistently partisan, party-line Democrat with the most liberal record in the U.S. Senate cannot credibly ignore his partisanship and extremism and run as a healer and a uniter.
Obama the idea is simply too big a disconnect from Obama the man. And that just doesn't go over all that well with the American people. Hence, the closeness of what, by most measurements, really shouldn't be a close race.
The reason is quite simple: the Obama of rhetoric bears absolutely no resemblance to the Obama of policy and practice.
He's not saying that Obama is a hypocrite. Instead, he's saying that the creature of Chicago's corrupt Democratic machine who has always refused to side with the reformers cannot now plausibly run as a reformer, and that the consistently partisan, party-line Democrat with the most liberal record in the U.S. Senate cannot credibly ignore his partisanship and extremism and run as a healer and a uniter.
Obama the idea is simply too big a disconnect from Obama the man. And that just doesn't go over all that well with the American people. Hence, the closeness of what, by most measurements, really shouldn't be a close race.
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