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Sunday, May 11, 2008 --- 74 days ago http://www.taylormarsh.com/archives_view.php?id=27652
| Guest post by Grey
In a seven-page profile, The New York Times charts the history of Barack Obama’s political awakening , from his days as a third-year law student at Harvard to the campaign trail.
The secret of his transformation, which has brought him to the brink of claiming the Democratic presidential nomination, can be described as the politics of maximum unity.
He moved from his leftist Hyde Park base to more centrist circles; he forged early alliances with the good-government reform crowd only to be embraced later by the city-??s all-powerful Democratic bosses; he railed against pork-barrel politics but engaged in it when needed; and he empathized with the views of his Palestinian friends before adroitly courting the city-??s politically potent Jewish community.
The politics of compromise and expediency, then, not of transformation and change, not when it’s so easy to dump one group of friends because you need the political support of another. Mr. Obama might not like it, but he has engaged in quite a bit of triangulation himself, certainly in his efforts to take positions that would appeal to a broad number of people rather than staking a stand of his own.
Four years after joining Judson H. Miner’s law firm, "exactly where an aspiring politician might land if he happened to want to run for office from Hyde Park," Obama decided to run for a seat in the Illinois Senate; that’s when he met Ay ... |
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