Barack Obama the speechmaker is being rumbled | Gerard Baker - Times Online

Barack Obama the speechmaker is being rumbled | Gerard Baker - Times Online

Europeans are puzzled at the thought that their preferred presidential candidates could lose: "The essential problem coming to light is a profound disconnect between the Barack Obama of the candidate's speeches, and the Barack Obama who has actually been in politics for the past decade or so.... There are just too many contradictions between the eloquent poetry of the man's stirring rhetoric and the dull, familiar prose of his political record."