Try as I might, I simply cannot take the presidential candidacy of Barack Obama seriously. No, strike that, the candidacy is serious enough. It has what analysts call traction. He’s won primaries, energized young voters, and given Hillary tacchycardia. The candidacy is serious enough. It is the candidate I cannot quite view with equanimity.
Barack Obama is the ultimate poseur. He stands for everything all at once and with conviction. But yet when those convictions are probed the tinny ring of platitude rings in the air. Barack Obama for president? Why? Because hope is audacious?
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