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It's very interesting to me how this image of Obama the "new
politician", the "agent of change", the bringer of hope, sticks and has
grow to mythic proportions.  Sorry, but Obama is a carefully crafted
product, an old school political hack - Chicago style, which if you're
not from here, isn't pretty.  He's a mixed race guy form Hawaii who
never lived the American black experience until he decided being black
would be a good move for him as a political commodity.  For real street
cred he got aligned with the Trinity Church, which gets along real well
with Nation of Islam down the street, which pulls big black Chicago
democrat machine power around town, which gets along well with the
Daley black machine, etc.  If you need to raise money you get in bed
with Rezko, etc, etc.  Is this bad?  I don't know, I don't know another
way, that's how things get done here, that's how you get elected in
Chicago.  Does his Madonna- like self invention make him less genuine
in his ideals? I don't know, maybe not. Is a well designed ascent
utilizing one's ethnic attributes as a catapult a bad thing?  Not
necessarily.  But please, don't for a minute think he's any different
than the oldest, most seasoned, most crusty hack of a politician.  He's
not.  He's literally the same product, different package.  He's very
smart, and a good, viable contender; but essentially offering a very
hazy outline of generally accepted democratic party standards.

As for the feminist issue, I think it's comical that women feel
Hillary's too old school, old boys club, not inspiring, not offering
enough hope.  What the hell does a woman have to be in this country to
get elected?   While so many of us swoon over Obama, in a naive high
school like crush, we're passing up a golden opportunity, the best
thing that's come along in decades.  Give it another look girls... and
boys.