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The secret ingredient in the Obama formula for success

May 31, 2010 - 4:14 am - by Roger Kimball
Jill
2010-06-01 07:29:50

Could Christopher Buckley possibly have been more wrong about Obama’s “first class temperament”?

That seemingly contradictory mix of ambition and laziness is interesting, what? I see him as a guy with very little initiative who had the skids greased for him early on, more of an opportunist than anything else.