Obama : A Sojourner
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more from Politics:
http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/ci_10107508
Finally, someone puts his finger on why it just doesn't feel right when you try to think of Obama as POTUS.." There is a sense that because of his unique background and temperament, Obama lives apart. He put one foot in the institutions he rose through on his journey but never fully engaged. As a result, voters have trouble placing him in his context, understanding the roots and values in which he is ineluctably embedded."
But what else makes it feel as if he doesn't really understand what it is to be an American?
"When we're judging candidates (or friends), we don't just judge the individuals but the milieus that produced them. We judge them by the connections that exist beyond choice and the ground where they will go home to be laid to rest. Andrew Jackson was a backwoodsman. John Kennedy had his clan. Ronald Reagan was forever associated with the small-town virtues of Dixon and Jimmy Carter with Plains.
It is hard to plant Obama. Both he and his opponent have written coming-of-age tales about their fathers, but they are different in important ways. McCain's Faith of My Fathers is a story of a prodigal son. It is about an immature boy who suffers and discovers his place in the long line of warriors that produced him. Obama's Dreams From My Father is a journey forward, about a man who took the disparate parts of his past and constructed an identity of his own."
"So, cautiously, the country watches. This should be a Democratic wipeout. But voters seem to be slow to trust a sojourner they cannot place. "
Finally, someone put the puzzle pieces together!
