Two years into his presdency, Barack Obama remains a remote, even mysterious figure. It's not that he isn't familiar. If anything, he is overexposed, a common sight on TV, speaking about this or that. But for all his constant presence, he is oddly irrelevant. lie isn't a failure: Obama's mid-40s approval ratings, while lower than Dwight Eisenhower's ever were, are at least twice as high as those of Congress. But he's not a success, either. Although Obama has passed a massive healthcare bill and finance reform in the last year, both bills are unpopular, among many experts as well as the citizenry-most of whom (the experts as well as the citizens) barely understand what the bills contain.
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