The Education Of Barack Obama
When reporters go one on one with Barack Obama, they end up writing things they'll regret in the morning papers. It's a phenomenon called "drinking the Obama juice." One besotted scribe called him "tall, fresh and elegant." And the august Atlantic Monthly mooned about his "charisma, intelligence and ambition, tempered by a self-deprecating wit," titling its article "The Natural."
OK, Obama is tall (6'2"), intelligent (Harvard Law, two bestselling books), and damn, he's ambitious (running for president after two years in Congress). But he's no natural. He's a driven politician who had to lose an election, in humiliating fashion, before he discovered the voice, the style and the agenda that have made him a celebrity senator, and the next Next President.
As a correspondent for the Chicago Reader, I covered Obama's 2000 campaign to unseat Rep. Bobby Rush, the ex-Black Panther and South Side civil rights hero. It's the only election he's ever lost. As even one of Obama's......
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