Barack Obama is beginning a massive undertaking to “reintroduce himself” to the American people. But unlike John McCain’s initial efforts, which suffered from excessive predictability, Obama’s new effort is fraught with tension and excitement. Which Obama will be introduced? The idealist reformer or the private-financed pol? The left-leaning foreign policy maven who wanted to meet without preconditions with rogue state leaders and withdraw from Iraq immediately or someone else? The post-racial or the race-card playing Obama? The free-trade or the protectionist Obama?

We can’t wait to find out. It is a measure of how erratic he has become that you can make an argument for any or all of these positions as potential avenues for Obama to pursue. So who is he? Well he’s not the reformer, town hall meeting participant David Broder was hoping for, is he?

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