In September of 2007, GQ did a lengthy article on Barack. Although it is fawning at times:
One way to describe Obama is that underneath the inspirational leader who wants to change politics—and upon whom desperate Democrats, Independents, and not a few Republicans are projecting their hopes—is an ambitious, prickly, and occasionally ruthless politician. But underneath that guy is another one, an Obama who's keenly aware that presidential politics is about timing, and that at this extremely low moment in American political life, there is a need for someone—and he firmly believes that someone is him—to lift up the nation in a way no politician has in nearly half a century.
There are other areas of the interview that are downright damning
One of the riddles of the Obama campaign is, to what extent does a candidate who preaches a gospel of changing politics need to run a revolutionarily different kind of campaign? The question has gnawed at Obama since he entered the race. At his very first press conference as a candidate, a reporter asked Obama why he was employing a team of opposition researchers—aides who spend their days and nights digging up dirt on other candidates and often leaking that info, "anonymously," to the media.
But what I really thought was interesting is what he said about Iraq at the time:
"The fact of the matter is, I have the most specific plan in terms of how to get out of Iraq of any candidate," he lectured us.
Uh. Yeah. Right.
