Time, Newsweek & the President-Elect

We’ve written a lot here about the expectations surrounding the new administration…but this seems a bit much. Newsweek’s current cover is titled "Obama’s Lincoln", with Mr. Obama standing in a long shadow cast by the sixteenth president. Time magazine has Mr. Obama reclined in an old car, top hat and cigarette holder, in the unmistakable pose of FDR. Time’s heading: "The New New Deal." (Funny how no one’s putting Chester Arthur or Millard Fillmore up there with the President-Elect…) In the meantime, kudos to Time for unearthing this nugget from their archives. This was first published in  January 1990, under the heading "Class Act": Running the Harvard Law Review often leads to a prestigious career. Last week, for the first time in its 103-year history, the Review welcomed a black president. Says Barack Obama, 28, who directed a community program for Chicago blacks before entering law school: "I feel like I’ve walked through a door a whole lot of other people worked hard to open." Eventually, says Obama, he may run for office. Hmm. Makes you want to read those little news-magazine notes more closely…