But unlike Bill Clinton, who never needed help fathoming Southern black culture, Obama lacks advisers who are descended from the central African-American experience, ones who understand "the slave thing," as a top black Democrat dryly puts it.
For me, meeting Fernanda is less about her informal travel service (although I do appreciate her help fathoming bus routes and her generous offer for me to stay with her relatives in the highlands), and more about the chance to have a personal tour of Quito, with insights I probably wouldn't get with a group tour guide.
But it is the best that voters can hope for to help them fathom a likely boom in attack ads and campaign propaganda.
Mr Hilton's company, Crowdpac, collects data on politicians in the US to help people fathom where they stand "on the big issues".
And there is little to help the visitor fathom the arcane, often impenetrable displays.
So there is good reason to believe that investigating extraterrestrial weather systems could one day help meteorologists to fathom the workings of those on earth.
Perhaps it would help Brennan to fathom the unfathomable if he remembers that, before the Snowden revelations, James Clapper, the director of National Intelligence, raised his hand and, in a Senate hearing, gave false testimony about whether the N.S.A. collected information on Americans.
Only here's a riddle that will help you to fathom the heart of his situation: Anthony is both a professor yet, simultaneously, he is not a professor at CUNY.
She touches briefly on many of the things she'll elaborate in our subsequent conversation, and on how listening to pirate foreign radio as a child helped her to fathom the outside world.
He said it could help doctors "try to fathom what is it like for the people we're dealing with".
In a graph of x against y they form a line thinner and straighter than any pencil can draw.In this section Let's get this straight A barrage of criticism The invisible enemy The beauty of equations ReprintsSuch graphs may help a student to fathom what the formula is about.
