Sigh. It was kind of nice when he was just ours. Now he's
Big Time.
This resonates with me:
Michelle, who met Barack in Chicago after law school, goes so far as to say that her husband "is not a politician first and foremost. He's a community activist exploring the viability of politics to make change." She and Harper both emphasize that there's nothing inevitable about Obama's running for president or even staying in the Senate if he doesn't feel he's making a difference.
(And a bit of inside baseball -- Obama hired Daschle's chief of staff to run his office.)