Except He Didn't Actually Write Them

clipped from hotair.com Instead, they are people, either in politics or close observers, who once held an unromantically high opinion of Obama. They were important to his rise, and are likely more important to the success or failure of his presidency than Obama or his distressingly insular and small-minded West Wing team appreciate. I’d challenge this argument as part of the real problem Drew misses.  The people who held Obama in such high esteem had indisputably romantic (in the classic sense) notions of Obama.  By definition.  What had Obama done before 2007 to earn “unromantically high opinion[s]” from anyone?  He won a few elections, but had no significant legislative accomplishments to his name, either in Illinois or in the US Senate. Most of these high opinions and high expectations came from Obama’s two memoirs.  It’s almost impossible in this age to imagine any more romantic basis for the vast support Obama won for his quest to have his first executive job be the US Presidency.

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