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A very deft analogy, thank you. Agreed wholeheartedly.
Now (to take the analogy further), I've seen enough evidence to suggest Obama will be more like Furtwangler than Lorin Mazel. (I'm picking on Mazel because I saw him conduct die Walkure at the Met and my God, it was boring! I mean, they played the notes, of course, but how anyone could get up there make some of the most passionate and cataclysmic music ever written boring is beyond me.)
Obama might appear boring, but just scratch the surface and you find a Furtwangler, which is to say, someone of powerful and singular vision.
