“Tired of Washington.” There’s a sly hipster syncopation to his cadence, “Been stuck there for a while.” But the folksiness pretty much disappears when he starts answering questions. Obama’s actual speaking style is quietly conversational, low in rhetoric-saturated fat; there is no harrumph to him.”
—Joe Klein’s 2006
TIME magazine profile on Obama; a well-written, interesting article more pertinent today than two years ago.
