Slick Barry, or The Audacity of Hope, Ark. I slogged through the NYT's long, long, looooong front-pager yesterday about Obama's rise through Chicago politics, and I found these passages remarkable: Others see his deft movements as a politicianâs shifting of positions and alliances for strategic advantage, leaving some disappointed and baffled about where he really stands. âHe has a pattern of forming relationships with various communities and as he takes his next step up, kind of distancing h