Tuesday Nov 18, 2008

Obama's kinda town?

Posted by Pinchas Landau

Almost two weeks after the US presidential election, I'm still looking for one of the pundits to make a fairly obvious point: Obama's from Chicago. He is the first president to emerge from the mid-West since Harry S. Truman, and that was so long ago as not to be relevant anymore.

What difference does it make? Especially in the case of Obama, who seems to hail from anywhere and everywhere simultaneously - Kansas or Kenya, Indonesia or Illinois, Hawaii or Harvard: you name it, he's been there, done that, and probably sent a postcard as well.

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