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I was just thinking exactly that when I read this. One minute he’s talking wealth redistribution, the next he’s sounding like Bill Cosby. I don’t believe he’s Machiavellian enough to hide any clear-cut agenda that well, so I think he’s never really had a deeply-held conviction or worldview, other than the small piece of one concerning the black race. I think when it concerns the black race as opposed to the general good will be the only time he knows what he believes without considering the political ramifications to himself. And his wife the hater Michelle plays into that as much as anything. Everything he’s said and done (inasmuch as he’s done anything) has merely been stepping-stones to gaining power. What he’ll do now that he has the ultimate position in American politics and therefore the free world, is a guess.

I’d like to have been a fly on the wall when he had lunch with the other presidents-I can just imagine him studying them, especially President Bush, who has always seemed to me to have complete confidence in himself and his beliefs, for better or worse, without having to analyse and second-guess himself. I can see Obama studying him, wondering if it’s because President Bush is white and came from a privileged background that he has such unselfconscious self-assurance, and wondering how to attain it in his own core. He won’t understand that it’s not being white, nor privileged, that gives you that-it’s having your own core convictions and knowing why. All he can do is fake the appearance of it. I say that because he seems to be projecting a somewhat different Obama than the one in the campaign. He’s always playing a role. But now he’s going to have to make the tough decisions-hard to have a clear-cut agenda and be comfortable with it when you don’t know who you are and what you really believe, other than your race. Unless he plans to be a merely “racial” president, with a lot of whispering in his ear from Michelle the hater.