Last month's edition of The Atlantic profiles Barack Obama in several articles. One of them, "Teacher and Apprentice," a must-read piece on the Obama-Clinton relationship by Marc Ambinder, contains a couple of theories about what lit a fire under the man's ass and made him decide to seek presidency.
One such theory involves our fair county:
Many Obama friends and advisers believe that the realization he actually could be president first hit Obama on December 1, 2006, which happened to be W
