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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Giles Singleton (Ms.)
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 by Giles Singleton (Ms.) - Oct. 1, 2008

The author takes facts and uses them to support his thesis. While his writing is ragged in places - repeats over and over about the Baby Boomers' divisions - his Obama points and his concluding paragraphs are intelligent, encouraging, and they illustrate extraordinary, creative, insightful thinking: a kind of thinking that has been absent from American journalism for seven years. As far as AP journalistic style is concerned, this isn't it, but for the Atlantic, it's fine.

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