2008-06-20 The Two Obamas

2008-06-20 \Barack Obama\David Brooks/writings\2008 US presidential race http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/20/opinion/20brooks.html The Two Obamas &ldquo; But as recent weeks have made clear, Barack Obama is the most split-personality politician in the country today. On the one hand, there is Dr. Barack, the high-minded, Niebuhr-quoting speechifier who spent this past winter thrilling the Scarlett Johansson set and feeling the fierce urgency of now. But then on the other side, thereâ€™s Fast Eddie Obama, the promise-breaking, tough-minded Chicago pol whoâ€™d throw you under the truck for votes. .. This guy is the whole Chicago package: an idealistic, lakefront liberal fronting a sharp-elbowed machine operator. Heâ€™s the only politician of our lifetime who is underestimated because heâ€™s too intelligent. He speaks so calmly and polysyllabically that people fail to appreciate the Machiavellian ambition inside.&rdquo; ''Brooks seems to have evolved into an intellectual hit-man for the neocons, whatever he might once have been. -{{woozle.init ''  {{:project:code/show/link}} 