"Of course, opponents could and did denounce these plenipotentiaries as blank, being all things to all people. Disraeli acknowledged this, writing, 'I am new enough on the national political screen that I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripe project their own views.' Oh, wait. My bad. That was Barack Obama in The Audacity of Hope. Disraeli's line, according to Kirsch, was, 'I am the blank page between the Old Testament and the New.'''
David Berreby in Slate places Barack Obama in a tradition of "'outsider' leaders."
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