“Barack Obama is as fine a writer as they come. It is not merely that this book avoids being ponderous, as might be expected, even forgiven, of a hefty memoir, but that it is nearly always pleasurable to read, sentence by sentence, the prose gorgeous in places, the detail granular and vivid.”
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Obama’s prose has always struck me as cutesy and self-conscious. Maybe he’s improved.
My friends u r missing something. He ‘rations’ his time in front of the camera making people want more. Then he answers questions by looking away often to ‘gather his thoughts’ thereby looking more eloquent. It appeals and hypnotizes his listeners. He’s ‘got it’ and we’ll have to deal with the next one. Wannabes included Beto and John Edwards.