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October 18, 2012 06:00 - 8:30 PM
Martini Restaurant
445 North High Street
Columbus, OH, 43212

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Who is Barack Obama? Charles R. Kesler argues that both liberals and conservatives misunderstand him. Disappointed liberals don’t appreciate the scope of the president’s ambition. And conservatives dismiss him as a socialist, hopelessly out of touch with the American mainstream. In his new, widely-praised book, Dr. Kesler tries to understand Obama as he understands himself, based largely on his own writings, speeches, and interviews. Kesler, the rare conservative who takes Obama seriously as a political thinker, views him as a gifted and highly intelligent progressive who is attempting to become the greatest president in the history of modern liberalism. Intent on reinvigorating the liberal faith, Obama nonetheless fails to understand its fatal contradictions – a shortsightedness that may prove to be liberalism’s undoing.