Obama :I want to inspire a renewal of morality in politics. I will work as hard as I can, as long as I can, on your behalf.”

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Every presidency is the subject of competing caricatures.

But almost a year into his first term, there’s something particularly elusive about Barack Obama’s political identity.

He’s a bipartisan bridge-builder — unless he’s a polarizing ideologue. He’s a crypto-Marxist radical —

except when he’s a pawn of corporate interests.

He’s a post-American utopian — or else he’s a willing tool of the national security state.

ttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/26/opinion/26douthat.html?em

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/07/21/080721fa_fact_lizza?currentPage=all#ixzz0aru029JW