Obama's Messiah Shtick By Bookworm
Messiah: "One who is anticipated as, regarded as, or professes to be a savior or liberator." American Heritage Dictionary
Schtick: "Yiddish slang meaning "gimmick" that has come to mean "someone's signature behavior."
He presents as a fairly nice-looking guy with a slightly dorky quality (I think it's the Bing Crosby ears); who is a smooth, albeit soporific, speaker; who boasts an Ivy League background sullied by the suspicion that he benefited as much from affirmative action as from his own virtues; and who demonstrates a sound grasp of shady Chicago style politics, including, during a remarkably short and generally undistinguished career, some pretty vicious and opportunistic conduct. I am talking, of course, about Barack Obama, a man who has shot from relative obscurity to the forefront of American politics.
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