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Conservative author and Hoover Institution Fellow Shelby Steele is out with a new book — “A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can’t Win” — but, as Barack Obama’s popularity has risen, Steele has started to slightly regret his choice in subtitles.
“If I had to do it over again, I imagine I might not have put it that way,” Steele joked with Yeas & Nays during a luncheon Friday at the Metropolitan Club. Steele said he turned in the “A Bound Man” manuscript in July.
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But Obama’s improved lot doesn’t mean the Illinois senator will get Steele’s vote. “I’m of a different ideological bent,” Steele said, he added that “I am proud of him. He’s presented himself in American politics in a fine way.” Still, Steele claims that Obama fans — and potentially even the Obama campaign itself — have tried “sabotaging” his book’s Amazon.com Web page and have confronted him on various radio stations.
Steele says that Obama’s campaign is based on “what he represents, rather than who he is.”
“He’s running as Elvis Presley,” Steele said. “There has to be a reality check at some point.”
