This article provides a view of the brain trust that influences the Obama campaign's policies. I enjoyed it for its details about the philosophies that guide their ideas, and how they have affected particular proposals. The author clearly likes the people he met in the Obama campaign, and this influences how he describes them, but he provides good detail as to why they and their approach is appealing.
Informative. With video clips, Jon Stewart shows the candidates' actual words and the amplificatory cycle of media reaction to them which is what is transmitted to the public.
Provides very interesting new information on how the federal government actively prevented states from protecting themselves from predatory sub-prime loans.
My feelings about the article changed when I got to the line stating that the musicologist had been groped during the pat down search, and then in the next sentence indicated that the person searching her had been a female immigration officer. "Groping" implies a sexual and untoward violation of person space. A pat down search by necessity is going to venture into areas that one normally would not allow strangers to touch; having her searched, and by a female officer to boot, seems to me entirely reasonable. While it is possible that the musicologist was the victim of a lesbian immigration officer gone wild, it sounds to me more as if she was extremely upset by the entire incident and this tinged her interpretation, what she ... More »
