“所到之处，黑人都显得迷茫，沮丧，找不到方向，对未来充满了恐惧，”奥巴马写到。
"Everywhere black people appeared dazed, stricken, uncertain of direction, frightened of the future," Obama wrote.
但是在奥巴马回忆录写到，在印尼刚开始上学时穿着当地的拖鞋和过时的衣服，感觉不能适应。
But in his memoirs, Obama described feeling like a misfit in his Indonesian sandals and old-fashioned clothes when he started at the school.
保守派专栏作家乔治·威尔更是写到，当年英国首相迪斯雷利对其前任格拉德斯通的评价用在奥巴马身上再合适不过了，“陶醉于自己的‘裹脚布’中不能自拔。”
George Will, a conservative columnist, notes that Disraeli's gibe about Gladstone might well apply to Mr Obama-he is "inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity".
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