The Obama Way

A Chicago pol’s special brand of insincerity

POLITICAL campaigning necessarily produces a wide gap between words and deeds – this is the price of bringing together a broad coalition with disparate interests. All effective politicians are at times authentically insincere or sincerely inauthentic.

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Fred Siegel

Mr. Siegel is a contributing editor to the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal and a scholar in residence at St. Francis College in Brooklyn, N.Y.

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A Chicago pol’s special brand of insincerity

POLITICAL campaigning necessarily produces a wide gap between words and deeds – this is the price of bringing together a broad coalition with disparate interests. All effective politicians are at times authentically insincere or sincerely inauthentic.