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presidential united states americaHillary Clinton has been a much
better senator than Barack Obama. Obama has some accomplishments under his belt, but
many of his colleagues believe that he has not bothered to master the
intricacies of legislation or the maze of Senate rules. If Clinton were running against Obama for Senate, it would be easy to choose between them. There are reasons to think that, among Democrats, Obama is better prepared for this madness. In the course of this struggle to discover who he is,
Obama clearly learned from the strain of pessimistic optimism that
stretches back from Martin Luther King Jr. This is a worldview that detests anger as a motivating
force, that distrusts easy dichotomies between the parties of good and
evil, believing instead that the crucial dichotomy runs between the
good and bad within each individual. In her outstanding New Yorker profile, Larissa
MacFarquhar notes that Obama does not perceive politics as a series of
battles but as a series of systemic problems to be addressed. Obama also has powers of observation that may mitigate his own inexperience and the isolating pressures of the White House. Obama demonstrated those powers in “Dreams From My
Father” and still reveals glimpses of the ability to step outside his
own ego and look at reality in uninhibited and honest ways. What Bill Clinton said on “The Charlie Rose Show” is right: picking Obama is a roll of the dice.