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What we have here is a case of the awe dancing with the awkward. Few really knew what "President-elect cool" was talking about when he threw around, "change", "hope", and "yes we can." In his vagueness, the gentleman from Illinois pasted together a narrative even an idiot could roll with,
In real life, the somewhat moderate Mr. Obama is pooling together a kind of Kantian fusion. Plugging tenets of rationalism into sockets of empiricism is not for the faint of heart. A lack of social inertia will be somewhat magically preserved in this administration.
