DREAMS FROM MY CANDIDACY

VANITIES

COMPARING A CERTAIN ILLINOISAN'S AWESOME '07-'08 WITH HIS DREARY '09-'10

Near the end of his first year in office, President Barack Obama told Oprah Winfrey that he deserved a "good, solid B-plus" for his performance thus far. But has he really delivered change that we, he, or anyone can believe in? BRUCE FEIRSTEIN ponders the disparity between the Obama we met on the campaign trail and the Obama who now occupies the Oval Office

BRUCE FEIRSTEIN

CANDIDATE OBAMA

"What w have already aehieved ghes us hope the audacity to hope for what we can and must achieve."

Calling Hillary "likable enough

F.D.R. No, wait, J.F.K.!

Joe the Plum her

closed for good!

SouLh Carolina, home of racially divisive primaries and Joe "You Iie!" Wilson

"Evervbody lies in politics, but [the Clintoiis] (10 it with such ease, it's troubling." —David Geffen

Secret Service detail

"Muslim!"

Slim-cut Hart Schaffner lar~ suits, worn without a tie

...Israelis and Palestinians

heads of states that sponsor terrorism

"They cling to guns or religion.

Reverend Jeremiah Wright

John Edwards

the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and elean.~

Astori ishing unprepa redness seats sweeping Dem victories in `08.

SOARING RHETORIC

POLITICAL MISCALCULATION

THE SECOND COMING OF

DOOFIJS OPPOSITION JUGGERNAUT

GUANTANAMO WILL BE.

STATE BEST AVOIDED

REFRESHINGLY CANDID BUDDY

PREMATURE ACQUISITION

FRINGE NUT-JOB TAUNT

INDELIBLE FASHION STATEMENT

EAGER TO BROKER PEACE BETWEEN..

BOLD WILLINGNESS TO MEET WITH

CATNIP TO THE OPPOSITION

CANT QUITE MAKE A CLEAN BREAK WITH...

PLAYA IN THE SHADOWS

KNUCKLEHEADED BIDENISM

PALIN EFFECT

"I'd rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president."

Prioritizing health-care reform over job creation

Jimmy Carter

Glenn Beck's American Revival tour

um, here we'll be holding Khalid Sheikh Mohammeds trial instead of in New York City.

Massaeliusetts, home of Skip Gatesgate amol Seott Piekup Truck" Brown

"I cannot escape being troubled by the fact that have in place a policy which forces young men and women to lie about who they are in order to defend their fellow citizens." Admiral Mike Mullen

Nobel Peace Prize

"Socialist!"

High-waisted, high-water dad jeans

Rahm Emanuel and Valerie Jarrett

Republicans

"The system worked." -Janet Napolitano on the underwear bomber

the "too big to fail" banks

Peter Orszag

"If we do everything right. there's still a 30 percent chance we're going to get it wrong."

Astonishing Tea Parts celebrity augurs sweeping G.O.P. resurgence in '10.