Goodbye to All That

Atlantic Monthly by Andrew Sullivan | Nov. 5, 2007 (Opinion)

The logic behind the candidacy of Barack Obama is not, in the end, about Barack Obama. It has little to do with his policy proposals, which are very close to his Democratic rivals' and which, with a few exceptions, exist firmly within the conventions of our politics. It has little to do with Obama's considerable skills as a conciliator, legislator, or even thinker. It has even less to do with his ideological pedigree or legal background or rhetorical ... Full Story »

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Roland F. Hirsch
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 by Roland F. Hirsch - Oct. 1, 2008

This opinion article is well written. But it has limited journalistic merit because of a lack of knowledge of history on the part of the author. It is a sales job for one of the candidates for President, not a balanced and well-informed analysis. The candidate that the author favors has had no executive experience and thus cannot be imagined as sufficiently experienced to handle the job of President. And the political circles the author goes in may be polarized, but the general public is not, especially when compared with the period before and around the Civil War or before the two World Wars. He may think that because Ann Coulter writes as wildly as he does that she has influence on the Republican Party but that simply isn't accurate.

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