Howard Fineman of Newsweek and MSNBC has seven ways to improve Obama’s image. They are all basically ways to flesh out his humanity. I agree with Fineman that this superstar metahumanity of Obama’s is part of his problem, along with race, of attracting white working class voters. It’s hard to relate to a guy when the very little you know about him is all so different than your own experience.
So fill out the rest of the portrait of Hyde Park and the South Side. I know it well enough to know that it is as “real” as anywhere else in this great country. So bring us home with you. I don’t even know if you are a White Sox fan! You’re always talking about the chatter in the “barber shops.” Take us to the one you go to.
