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If you read his books you will know better than this.Or is he just a knee jerk liberal, an ambitious black Chicago politician who understood that his political career would go nowhere if he did not embrace liberalism? Keep in mind that his "signature" issue, health insurance "reform", only became an important issue for him when it was forced upon him by Clinton and Edwards during the primaries, that he only enthusiastically embraced it when it became important to his personal success in the primaries that he do so.
I read first book, Dreams from My Father, which was written just after law school, and that is of the reason I doubt depth of his "convictions". Before Obama became a national political celebrity, the book had only one printing, most of which ended up on clearance tables, and in recalling that time in the introduction to a later edition, Obama says that he had originally intended to write a book about the black experience in America, but whenever he sat down to write, all he could think about was his own experience, which if you read that book you know had nothing to do with the experience of other black people in America. Both the book, itself, which basically recounts Obama's search for an identity and a place to belong, and his account of how he came to write that book, suggest that rather than being a deep thinker on social and political issues with strong convictions, he is shallow and self absorbed. While the book does show he is a good, although dull, writer, it also shows he has nothing to say except that he finds himself and his experiences endlessly fascinating.
I can't imagine what you read in that book to give you the impression Obama is a man of deeply and passionately held liberal beliefs rather than just a shallow, one dimensional, self absorbed, ambitious man who understood he had to embrace liberalism if he hoped to get anywhere in politics.
You are absolutely 100% correct.
There persists a deeply imbedded and often petulant self-involvement within Obama. The man has yet to truly grow up, and his first year in office has been a clear indicator of such.
He best grow up fast now, or his political future shall not proceed past one term...
(to say nothing of the fact Obama received ample help from his books - though none are credited with doing so. His college records gives no indication of his having any significant skill in writing...)
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