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Who Is Barack Obama?

In honor of Barack Obama's historic win — so much more on that later — the New York Times put together a slide show called "Who is Barack Obama?" showing him in various settings throughout his 16-months-long campaign. The caption writers point to his contradictory ambition and intense privateness, his preference for fruit and organic tea over fries and beer, and the way he "studies his chosen world like a Talmudist" as evidence that, however much we've been inundated with news about him for the past year, he's quite an inscrutable fellow. I'm not sure I am fully in line with that theory, but it goes without saying that he's a guy that doesn't fit easily into any one box.

Jun 4, 2008 · posted by Lauren Williams, Stereohyped · Link · 3 Responses

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No. 1 · Hope

Who is Barack Obama? He is the next President of the United States of America. He is that leader that OUR country has been missing since that fateful day in Dallas and that morning outside of a Memphis motel and that moment in the Audoban. He is the light at the end of the tunnel of our great discontent following the last seven years. He is the antidote to the disease of forgetfulness that has plague this great nation since 1865. He is another HOPE that has risen from Illinois (the Land of Lincoln). He is the son of a white women from Kansas and a black man from Kenya. He is Barry. He is what America was MEANT to be.

Posted: Jun 4, 2008 at 8:55 am

No. 2 · KatDat

I've been reading online the articles and headlines of a lot of the major news outlets the nytimes, cnn, the washingpost and something really struck me and at the same time sadden me a bit.

Everyone was so quick to say the "first Black President." I think it's a lazy classification and feeds exactly into what people will think about him on "literally" face value and exactly what he, Obama is trying to avoid. He is not Just Black, he himself said that he white and black and his family, his blood is a whole hue of different races and people. I feel you, Obama.

I think it's just lazy to call him the Black president. I refuse to do it. Yes, it's what most people will see and want to classify him as such. As a person that just does not fit in one box, I find that so refreshing and a true representation of what this country is all about. I hope we can remember that. I hope the media will not be lazy and help support his message of being a Person and not a color.

Posted: Jun 4, 2008 at 10:29 am

No. 3 · msim

He is very elusive because he does fit into so many boxes.
He is Kenyan and American, grew up in an Asian Muslim nation and in Hawaii, seems to be open minded and knowledgeable about the world outside the US, hetero Church-goer but not a bigot. Obviously not of the "Spitzer/Clinton school of manliness".

He has that "internationality" so beloved outside the US. I do hope he is elected because I have never seen my nation (Canada), and the world, getting so excited about a future US president.

Aurevoir Billary!

Posted: Jun 4, 2008 at 11:00 am

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