This New Republic piece on Obama’s community organizer days is long-ish but just excellent.
The sum-up is that Obama was a young idealist who quickly learned his dreams could not be put into practice in the real world as a community organizer. So, he quit, went to law school, ran for office, and transformed himself into what he is now.
What Obama perhaps doesn’t realize is that he will still have to deal with the real world if he becomes President, and I imagine that he will once again be disillusioned (with the world, but never with himself…)
