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Aziz Rana

Aziz Rana

Obama and the Closing of the American Dream

American Politics
2 September 2008

How can Barack Obama, a man who only recently paid off his student loans and who lives a relatively modest life in Chicago’s Hyde Park, a few blocks from one of America’s poorest neighborhoods, be more “elitist” than John McCain, the son of an admiral (not to mention the husband of a beer heiress)? Yet the E-word still hangs heavy over his otherwise charmed campaign. More…