Wednesday, January 27, 2010

The Question Remains: Who is Barack Obama?

The Right Side of Life

Ahead of the State of the Union speech by America’s 44th President, questions continue to swirl concerning who Mr. Obama is and exactly for what he stands.

Prof. Jacobson at LegalInsurrection takes on this meme:

Obama may be everything good, or the promise Obama embodies may just be a figment of our own imagination.

Obama is the perfect vehicle for imagining hope, because he has almost no record. Obama is a blank canvas upon which we can paint our imagined hope. …

Barack Obama also reminds me of many lawyers I have dealt with in my career. He’s the smooth talking lawyer on TV who will get you “the settlement you deserve.” … He is a paper lawyer who fools only his own clients.

Bob Herbert of The New York Times produced an op-ed piece in which he questions “Obama’s Credibility Gap:”
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