Prometheus 6

Barack Obama...try him again for the first time.

My reaction to the restructured reality represented by the linked article may seem peculiar to you, given that I have said I'm voting for him in the New York primary. But voting for John Edwards was a real possibility for me. I do not see Sen. Obama as an unalloyed good.

In his 2006 book, “The Audacity of Hope,” Mr. Obama recalls sitting with a white, liberal Democrat in the Senate and listening to a black, inner-city legislator, whom he identified only as John Doe, speechifying on how the elimination of a particular program was blatant racism. The white colleague turned to Mr. Obama and said, “You know what the problem is with John? Whenever I hear him, he makes me feel more white.”