The Obama Method

(this post was written by Kyle on June 23, 2009, and it concerns obama & Politics)

From Jonathan Chait’s The Obama Method:

On the one hand, you have a disciple of the radical community organizer Saul Alinsky turned ruthless Chicago politician. On the other hand, there is the conciliatory post-partisan idealist. The mistake here is in thinking of these two notions as opposing poles. In reality it’s all the same thing. Obama’s defining political trait is the belief that conciliatory rhetoric is a ruthless strategy.