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« Gavin’s Adventures In Beijing, Day 6 | Main | Khan 2.0 Has Shipped » July 15, 2008The New Yorker: "How Chicago Shaped Obama"The New Yorker has a fascinating, in-depth piece about Barack Obama ("Making It: How Chicago Shaped Obama") that's required reading if you're at all interested in the man or his candidacy: Like many politicians, Obama is paradoxical. He is by nature an incrementalist, yet he has laid out an ambitious first-term agenda (energy independence, universal health care, withdrawal from Iraq). He campaigns on reforming a broken political process, yet he has always played politics by the rules as they exist, not as he would like them to exist. He runs as an outsider, but he has succeeded by mastering the inside game. He is ideologically a man of the left, but at times he has been genuinely deferential to core philosophical insights of the right. The article goes back to his roots in Chicago, talks about his experience dealing with the Chicago machine, walks through his various victories (and losses) for public office, and builds a portrait of a very skilled, very capable, and very un-naive politician. For anyone who thinks he's "OBambi", well, you might be in for a rude surprise. Posted by Gavin Shearer at July 15, 2008 5:27 AM. Posted to Politics. Trackback PingsTrackBack URL for this entry: CommentsPost a commentThanks for signing in, . Now you can comment. (sign out) (If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.)« Gavin’s Adventures In Beijing, Day 6 | Main | Khan 2.0 Has Shipped » |