on . Obama can "discourse intelligently and expansively about . It is clear to those who know Niebuhr and who read and observe Obama, that he has internalized some Niebuhrian motifs... 'Realistic hope' is a caution against utopianism, naive idealism, the claiming of bragging rights, or politically 'not knowing to come in out of the rain.'"
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