LET OBAMA BE OBAMA, BY DICK MORRIS
January 3, 2006 -- Those who deride Sen. Barack Obama's (D-Ill.) lack of experience and criticize the broad generalities and banalities that festoon his best-selling book miss the key point: His inexperience is an asset because he enters national politics as a blank canvas on which he can paint whatever he chooses. With only two years in the Senate, he is less like a politician running for president than like a general -- think Eisenhower in 1952 or even the abortive candidacy of Colin Powell in... Sign in to see full entry.