SPRINGFIELD, Ill. The taunting began as soon as Barack Obama joined the Illinois Senate
in January 1997. He had expected to face some skepticism as a political
neophyte, but not such outright hostility. For the first few months of
his career as a lawmaker, Obama navigated the unfamiliar corridors of
the state Capitol like a misfit lost in a new school, sometimes
complaining to colleagues that he was "getting it from all sides."
He was a Democrat surrounded by Republicans. A Harvard
intellectual chided by good old boys. A biracial progressive in an
environment rife with racial tension. A sophisticated urbanite living
in a town built on cornfields, 200 miles removed from his family in
Chicago.
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