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At first glance Richard Lowry seems to have Barack Obama figured out ("The Great Audacious Hope," March 5). Mr. Lowry rightly notes the centrality of Obama's vague yet comfortable message of hopefulness. He properly takes Obama to task for his lack of detail and concrete policy positions, and for the underlying arrogance in Obama's message that is perceived by those who do not emotionally or intuitively already accept what Obama is offering. However, when Mr. Lowry suggests that Obama is miscalculating the "very stuff of politics" and that the general voters will tire of Obama's repackaged, yet empty, Oprah-style liberalism, I think it is Mr. Lowry who underestimates ...