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Article: He is Penn State: Barack Obama's rapturous welcome.(Election)(Pennsylvania)
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- The American Conservative
- Article date:
- April 21, 2008
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WEEKS HAVE PASSED since Barack Obama's speeches could make bloggers emit oceanic feelings through their keyboards. Obamaism is no longer fresh or poised to sweep the world before it. Jeremiah Wright has complicated matters, as has the episodic sourness of the candidate's wife Michelle. Obama trails John McCain in most national polls and has yet to put Hillary away.
He remains, however, a first-rate politician, with better media and communication skills than his rivals. There was no way to foresee his Teflon quality, that ability to glide through messes with nothing sticking. What other figure could survive media scrutiny of two decades of close association with ...