Obama’s Political Intelligence

By artappraiser on Sun, 11/11/2012 - 5:35pm |

By Adam Gopnik, Daily Comment @ newyorker.com, Nov. 8, 2012

A very thought-provoking essay for people like me, who have never been that impressed with the same.

Concluding paragraph for an excerpt:

By now Obama must know the virtues of fighting and the limits of the invocation of unity, but he knows, too, that a cool man who does not cherish his own warmest rhetoric becomes a mere hot-air artist. If that knowledge can make him seem at times naïve, or even willfully perverse—well, after all, he’s the one who’s the phenomenon, not you. And he’s the one who put his foot down about the second dog.

URL:

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2012/11/obamas-political-intelligence.html