He's been a pot-smoking surfer dude, an American transplant to Muslim-heavy Indonesia, a hip California college kid, a street-smart black-community organizer, a suit-wearing legal wunderkind at Harvard, a scrappy civil rights attorney and a solemn top-flight law professor.
He didn't publish anything when he was president of the Harvard Law Review, and he wasn't a "top-flight law professor," either, but rather a part-time instructor at the University of Chicago.
This is key:
If there is one determining characteristic of this young nominee, it is that he intensely educates and redefines himself at key junctures in his life. Those who know him best say he would not be at the threshold of history today if he did not possess that ability to adapt.
He constantly "redefines" himself to the point that not only do people not have a clue who he really is, HE doesn't know, either.
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