Obama Story

Obama is a storyteller. His speeches lay out a vision of the country he sees and the country he would like to see. Storytellers are usually observers, not participants -- and Obama is both.

If it were not for the emotional threads of Barack Obama's personal story, it seems very likely that more attention would be paid to Joseph Biden's ow...

On Tuesday we gain a president but lose a narrative... No matter what happens tomorrow -- and despite the freeway collision of an economic crisis and two wars -- that narrative is possessed by Barack Obama.