After a nearly flawless campaign, in both strategy and tactics, Barack Obama and David Axelrod have clearly left both their opposition and the 'pundit class' gasping for air in their dust.

Obama projects an air of confidence and inner clarity which seems to derive from something akin to advance knowledge of outcomes. His focus goes beyond garden variety IQ. It becomes apparent that he is, in addition, simply more conscious than the typical pundit, or politician, from either party.

The best analogy I can think of is from a long time favorite book, Flatland by Edwin Abbot

In the book, the three-dimensional Sphere has the ability to stand inches away from a Flatlander and observe them without being seen, can remove Flatland objects from closed containers and teleport them via the third dimension without traversing the space in between, and is capable of seeing and touching the inside and outside of everything in the two-dimensional universe; at one point, the Sphere gently pokes the narrator's intestines and launches him into three dimensions as proof of his powers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland

Obama's keen observation of human behavior, political behavior in particular, gives him a raised vantage point from which he has been able to ascertain the motives and trajectories of his opponents and adversaries. He has been able to anticipate and frustrate every attack, and simply step aside, like a kung-fu master, as his opponent misses swing after swing.

His understanding of the power of language gave the lie to both Clinton's and McCain's whining about "he's all just pretty words".

After all, leadership is exactly about finding the words to invigorate and empower ones listeners. Without language, we have no polity, no public, no common good. This is, of course, also the danger, for, as George Lakoff said, there is no other weapon in the struggle of ideas.

George Lakoff, in fact, must be feeling pretty well vindicated himself, after his disabuse by the DLC centrists. His star shown during Howard Dean's campaign, but was quenched by the 'realists' who claimed that his message was 'only about words'.

Barack Obama understands the Force of human political strategy, like a Jedi Knight, he able to re-frame powerful attacks by dynamically altering the dimension in which the battle occurs.

I expect that there will never have been a human more conscious of the pitfalls and potentials of power as he enters the People's House, as our next President, our leader and our humble servant.

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