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The Incoherence of Hope

By Troy Senik
Wednesday, July 01 2009

Pity Barack Obama. At the tender age of 47, reality has begun to roost in his otherwise serene cerebrum. After years of bemoaning a world lost to contention, he was convinced that his elevation to the nation’s highest office could usher in a new era of global understanding and tranquility. It was a vision equal parts lion and lamb utopianism and flagrant self-aggrandizement – which is to say a typical conceit from the most messianic president since Woodrow Wilson. There’s only one problem: the world didn’t get the memo. In the course of his campaign and the early months…

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