sexta-feira, 9 de abril de 2010

Book Review - The Bridge - The Life and Rise of Barack Obama - By David Remnick - Review - NYTimes.com

Remnick takes as the keynote of his book a saying by Congressman John Lewis, the civil rights hero of the Selma march: “Barack Obama is what comes at the end of that bridge in Selma.” 
Book Review - The Bridge - The Life and Rise of Barack Obama - By David Remnick - Review - NYTimes.com

domingo, 4 de abril de 2010

It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s Obama!

                                                                           Barry Blitt - NY Times
...Obama is a “shape-shifter,” with a remarkable ability to come across differently to disparate constituencies. Some of that reflects his agility at shifting rhetorical gears when, say, speaking to a living-room gathering on Chicago’s Near North Side or at a black church — a talent not unknown to some white politicians, starting with Bill Clinton. But much of this has less to do with Obama’s performance style than with how various audiences respond to his complex, hard-to-pigeonhole poly-racial-cultural-geographical identity. As far back as 2004 — when Obama was still in the Illinois Senate — a writer at The Chicago Tribune, Don Terry, framed what remains the prevailing Obama takeaway to this day. “He’s a Rorschach test,” Terry wrote. “What you see is what you want to see.”

Op-Ed Columnist - It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s Obama! - NYTimes.com