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"The Reconstructionist\n\n\n\nMichael Steele, the embattled new head of the Republican Party, on whether he'd be in this job if he were white, why he left the seminary for the GOP, and where his diminished party goes from here\n\nby lisa depaulo; photograph by jason schmidt\n\nI met Michael Steele in his office at the RNC several weeks into his new job, while he was still unpacking his stuff. It\u2019d been a tough beginning\u2014and was about to get even worse, with one committeewoman calling for his resignation after he picked the now legendary fight with Rush Limbaugh. Even Saturday Night Live found him goofy enough to make fun of. But Steele seemed anything but under siege when we talked. He was exuberant, charming, intense, playful\u2014not the usual vibe you get at the RNC. Like his best-known predecessor, Ken Mehlman, he is fastidious (\u201CYeah, I\u2019m kinda crazy like that\u201D). Unlike Mehlman, he talks. And talks. Nothing is off the record. Everything is amusing. Even the heavy dark-wood Republican furniture he has inherited. Don\u2019t worry, he assures me, he\u2019s \u201Credoing the whole thing.\u00A0This is gonna sound weird, but it\u2019s way too male for me. Would you like a piece of chocolate?\u201D They\u2019re\u2026kisses. \nI was kinda expecting hip-hop to be playing in here today.\n  Aw, sh\u2014. It\u2019s on my, uh, computer there. I haven\u2019t pulled it up yet, but I\u2019ll get a little bit goin\u2019 in a second or two.\nWho do you listen to?\n  I actually listen to a cross section, because I like to hear what the medium is saying, what the voice is.\nBut do you have a favorite?\n  P. Diddy I enjoy quite a bit. \nDo you want to rethink that?\n  [laughs] I guess I\u2019m sorta old-school that way. Remember, I came of age with the DJ and all this other stuff, so I\u2019m also loving..."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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