Brian Frazer finds Barack Obama a high-maintenance friend.

The Washington Post notes that Obama “has taken the unusual route of publicly criticizing his own community.” Apparently, if you’re an African-American candidate for president, you shouldn’t point out problems in the African-American community.

At some point I will read through and summarize this massive profile of Obama in the New Yorker, but I can’t help but notice that the 11 page journalistic monolith begins with a deliberately boring anecdote of Obama talking to a farmer in Illinois. The point is to illustrate that Obama talks to voters in a different manner than the usual Democratic presidential candidate, but man, what a way to chase away readers after one page…

I looked at Obama’s problem with his volunteer MySpace coordinator here.