>>Hey, Obama fans, read this one and tell me how committed he is to any particular direction or whether he's "post-political" or post anything
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>>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25925202/
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>You clearly read that differently than I do. I see a terrific professor, who made his students think about multiple sides of an issue, and who taught that things aren't simple. (FWIW, one of the things I admire about him now is that he doesn't assume the electorate are idiots who have to be fed sound bites. He talks as though we have functioning brains, and can understand nuance.)

Oh, we can. It's the reporters who can't. Their paycheck depends on how much of a headline can be extracted from their writing. So if there's no soundbite in it, it's worthless to them. It's the media who think we have a two bit processor.