Once the hope of a great American spiritual re-emergence, Obama today seems to be a skillfully bland shadow of that once-inspirational-leader we all had come to know and love a few months back. We hoped for Kennedy-esq speeches, valiant visions and brilliant beckons to bring us back into some majestic stance of who we really are, who we really could be... as a nation. Our hearts swooned for a unified youth: bounding over our own intellectual bigotry, we yearned for the re-birth of an America we could write home to Mom about. But our fearless leader seems to have put ...