Who is Barack Obama‪?‬

"'People don't come to Obama for what he's done in the Senate,' says Bruce Reed, president of the centrist Democratic Leadership Council. 'They come because of what they hope he could be.' What Obama stands for, if anything, is not yet clear. Everywhere he goes he is greeted by thrilled crowds, trailed constantly by a reporter from The Chicago Tribune who is writing a book about the senator with a preliminary title so immodest that it embarrassed even Obama's staff: The Savior. ... 'Barack has become a kind of human Rorschach test,' says Cassandra Butts, a friend of the senator's from law school and now a leader at the Center for American Progress. 'People see in him what they want to see.'" -- From "Destiny's Child" by Ben Wallace-Wells in the February 22, 2007, edition of Rolling Stone I'm still wading through David Mendell's fascinating (and quasi-official) biography of pro-abortion Sen. Barack Obama, titled Obama: From Promise to Power. It is jam-packed with insights (often unintentionally so). In one particularly telling passage, Mendell astutely observes that Obama "is an exceptionally gifted politician whom throughout his life, has been able to make people of widely divergent vantage points see in him exactly what they want to see." When taken in conjunction with David Freddoso's The Case against Barack Obama, it paints a fascinating portrait of a man whose political good fortune is grounded in a remarkable ability to be all things to all peoplea political chameleon.