{"id":4244,"date":"2007-01-30T22:50:22","date_gmt":"2007-01-30T22:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4244"},"modified":"2025-09-26T16:52:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T16:52:42","slug":"obamamania_upda_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4244","title":{"rendered":"Obama-mania Update IV"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well I’m not the only weblog all over Obama-mania. <\/p>\n

The online left wing magazine Slate<\/strong> is into the act in the person of one of their major writers, Timothy Noah. <\/p>\n

The Obama Messiah Watch. – By Timothy Noah – Slate Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n

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I therefore inaugurate the Obama Messiah Watch, which will periodically highlight gratuitously adoring biographical details that appear in newspaper, television, and magazine profiles of this otherworldly presence in our midst. <\/p>\n

Today’s item, from a Los Angeles Times<\/em> profile<\/span><\/a> by Larry Gordon about Obama’s two years at Occidental College (before he transferred to Columbia):<\/p>\n

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In [political science professor Roger] Boesche’s European politics class, [classmate Ken] Sulzer said he was impressed at how few notes<\/em> [italics mine] Obama took. "Where I had five pages, Barry had probably a paragraph of the pithiest, tightest prose you’d ever see. \u2026 It was very short, very sweet. Obviously somebody almost Clintonesque in being able to sum a whole lot of concepts and place them into a succinct written style."<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well I’m not the only weblog all over Obama-mania. The online left wing magazine Slate is into the act in the person of one of their major writers, Timothy Noah. The Obama Messiah Watch. – By Timothy Noah – Slate Magazine I therefore inaugurate the Obama Messiah Watch, which will periodically highlight gratuitously adoring biographical […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9498,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4244\/revisions\/9498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}