"Sir Nigel further observed that 'Obama is cool. He looks cool, tall, slim … and maybe aloof, insensitive.' Obama, he wrote, 'is tough and competitive. This is of course the Chicago school.' (Presumably he was referring to the rough-and-tumble of Chicago's ward politics, not to the rough-and-tumble of the University of Chicago's neoclassical economics, with which the phrase is more typically associated.)"
Bonnie Goldstein in Slate presents part of a briefing on Barack Obama written by British Ambassador Sir Nigel Sheinwald for Prime Minister Gordon Brown in anticipation of Obama's visit to Britain last summer.
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