Obama is "utterly unpretentious, assumption of power hasn't phased him"

By GottaLaff

Who is the "real" Barack Obama? Sasha Abramksy wrote a book about it:

[A]ccording to Sasha Abramsky's latest book, Inside Obama's Brain, the president is too complex to be pigeonholed. [...]

Obama is an extremely complex, multilayered personality. [...]

Yes, he's an idealist, but he's also intensely pragmatic. And it's that fusion of pragmatism and idealism that makes him an effective politician. Idealism without pragmatism could degenerate into just a series of high-flown, oratorical feats. But it's Obama's ability to then knuckle down and do the hard work and actually push for specific policy reforms. There was a lot of mettle underneath the idealism. [...]

What I found is that this is a man who knows how and when to compromise. In some ways, he's quite like Muhammad Ali. He lets himself lean backwards. He lets himself look like he's going onto the ropes, and then, very effortlessly, he counterattacks.

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