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From the New Yorker, The Choice
The Clinton-Obama battle reveals two very different ideas of the Presidency.

But perhaps the most important difference between these two politicians – whose policy views, after all, are almost indistinguishable – lies in their rival conceptions of the Presidency. Obama offers himself as a catalyst by which disenchanted Americans can overcome two decades of vicious partisanship, energize our democracy, and restore faith in government. Clinton presents politics as the art of the possible, with change coming incrementally through good governance, a skill that she has honed in her career as advocate, First Lady, and senator.