Thursday, December 18, 2008

Never Underestimate the Potential of a College Freshman

The Times today publishes pictures of Barack Obama taken by a student photographer at Occidental College when the President-elect was a freshman. Obama's technique with a cigarette is not to be missed.

We'll make the observation that Obama, like our current POTUS, clearly had issues to overcome in his earlier life. His present level of near obsession about his fitness (the Times notes this but misses the obvious parallel to Dubya), minus his ongoing nicotine addiction, strike us as characteristic of a person who believes he has a mission to accomplish and must not waste his opportunities to accomplish it.

There's more to say about Obama, Blagojevich, politics, economics, education, Christmas, life, the universe and everything. But it'll wait until after grades are done.

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