April 2008
4 posts
Maybe running for president and being president...
Clinton used to hammer Obama with the line that running for president and being president were not the same thing, in order to point out to undecideds that just because Obama can look presidential up on stage doesn’t mean he’d make a great president In yesterday’s Washington Post though Peter Beinart refutes this idea, pointing out that, “presidents tend to govern the way...
The Case for Clinton
Fascinating piece out of Salon today by Princeton history professor and avowed Clintonista Sean Wilentz on how HRC has been hung up by the Dems’ Byzantine electoral process: Obama’s advantage hinges on a system that, whatever the actual intentions behind it, seems custom-made to hobble Democratic chances in the fall. It depends on ignoring one of the central principles of American...
The Death and Life of Politics in American Cities
The way most presidential elections play out, you’d think that the big issues facing the country are the demise of the family farm and the decline of the industrial base, while the 70% of us who live in urban areas are like the voters of Florida and Michigan: forgotten, forlorn, and dismissed. At least that’s the way Inga Saffron sees it. The architectural critic for Philly Inquirer, she calls out...