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Beginnings and endings

March 12, 2009 - 4:54 am - by Richard Fernandez
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2009-03-13 08:31:09

What makes Obama sad is this: he knows that there are superior men out there; men like general Petraeus. But he knows that at every crucial stage of his life he took the easy way. He knows he’ll never be like Petraeus but he is compensated for it psychologically by accepting to be a symbol.