Is it Obama the man or Obama the concept that infatuates Americans?
Posted on January 14, 2008
Filed Under Barak Obama, Democratic Primary
There seems to be a dramatic split over the feeling of Barack Obama as abstract concept and Barack Obama as tangible candidate, potential commander in chief. I wonder how many of Obama’s white supporters who revel in announcing to the world that they support an African American candidate will suddenly pull a different lever–a white lever–when in the seclusion of a curtained booth? Was this dynamic at work in the more private working of the New Hampshire primary as opposed to the very public nature of a caucus as in Iowa?
Kathleen Parker had an interesting piece in today’s St. Augustine Record questioning that which is the magic of Obama. Does this punch drunk spell he has us all under really translate in the least to how the man would govern?  Maybe feeling good is what it’s about, as right now we feel pretty damn bad.
Check out the article here.
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