“[David] Maraniss sees [Barack] Obama as a man with "a moviegoer's or writer's sensibility, where he is both participating and observing himself participating, and views much of the political process as ridiculous or surreal, even as he is deep into it.”
“At times, he even admitted that he'd been more an observer of the world than a participant in it...”
“Barack Obama will appeal to both black and white voters in America. White voters who'll think he's Tiger Woods.”
“Church leaders raised on rationalism lead ministries where the supernatural, the Vertical, is suppressed and where God Himself is at best an observer and certainly seldom, if ever, and obvious participant in church.”
“I am a Conservative: Barack Obama is the Hans Gruber of American politics. #caring”
“At Times, even he admitted that he'd been more an observer of the world than a participant in it, and in moments of painful honesty, he sometimes believed he was a failure in all what was important”