The only change that Obama is capable of producing is his own chameleon behavior. The speed and agility with which he shifts into channeling past Presidents and other political leaders is truly breathtaking. "Change" would indeed be the mantra of such a chameleon figure. Obama is a narcissistic charismatic -- the quintissential con man. He sucks up information about the people around him and then adapts himself to be that onto which their ideals can be projected. One thing charismatic con men are good at is studying and channeling other Influentials People.
Another thing about Michelle Obama's senior thesis on politico.com: it was badly written. Her punctuation, use of commas to break up sentence structure and use of language is on par with that of a high school student, not a senior at Princeton. She got into Princeton with grades and test scores that were lower than their average freshman, as an affirmative action admission, which were handed out to very under-qualified minorities back when she was a kid. Her writing was literate but very unskilled, not like a college grad from a decent school. Moreover, the thesis itself was unsuccessful in proving or even making its point.
I posted earlier how it shows she was racist and separatist (implying that blacks who are "integrationist / assimilationist" and integrate into white communities lose their black identity). But I forgot to post that it was just poor work, in terms of writing or reasoning or proving something.
For those of you who want to call Clinton just a wife of an ex-President, go read Clinton's senior thesis from Wellesley. Clinton's work at a college senior blows away Michelle Obama's.
The Obamas are, sadly, products of the aggressive affirmative-action era. This helps explain Obama's sparse record, his lack of distinction as an Illinois senator or U.S. senator, and why he didn't make partner as a lawyer at his law firm out of Harvard and drifted into politics with his charm and charisma. He is in politics, but doesn't actually do much, himself.
It's sad because there are so many top, qualified and excellent black professionals out there now. But these Clarence Thomas types are going to start popping up a lot now, because there's a whole generation of less-talented blacks who got into and through school on affirmative action and then rise to the top, not on talent but in politics. Affirmative action does a real disservice to the really brilliant members of a minority.
Great, the Democrats are going to nominate a liberal Clarence Thomas as a Presidential Candidate and we'll have to listen to his dominating, racist, anti-white wife all year. A politician who offers politics-as-entertainment and politics-as-religious-revival.
I'd rather have politics-as-usual.