Blessed with an uncanny ability to energize a crowd, to write rivetingly of his roots and his ideals, and to find common cause amid partisan strife, Senator Barack Obama is the face of a new generation of American leadership. Laurie Abraham accompanies him on an extraordinary journey through Africa to the land of his father.
We're sitting in the closed compartment of a ferry, churning across Table Bay off Cape Town, South Africa, to the island where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for nearly two decades. Our party includes a clutch of newspaper reporters, two documentary teams, and the man we've all flown 9,000 miles for: Barack Obama, the U.S. senator from Illinois—though the "from Illinois" part seems off, an unnecessary afterthought.
With the constant chatter about his presidential potential, Obama, a Democrat, already seems like the country's man, too big to be fenced in by the silly parochialisms of a single state. This visit is part of his effort to become the world 's man. Obama's domestic bona fides are pretty solid, but a contender for the presidency needs to be equally fluent in international affairs.
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