And the Good News Is ...
By GAIL COLLINS
New York Times
We live in a great country. Despite all our problems, this is still a nation where parents believe that if their child works hard and plays by the rules, some day he or she may grow up to be a superdelegate.
The Democrats are feeling a little blah right now. True, a six-and-a-half-week slog to the Pennsylvania primary is not the ideal way to spend the spring. But the good news is that voters who are intrigued but a little dubious about Barack Obama will get to see how he performs under pressure.
Admit it, people. When you try to envision how the politics of hope would play out in the real world, things go a bit fuzzy. How’s Obama going to get Republicans to work with Democrats on national health care when Republicans don’t want national health care? How’s he going to run a positive ship in a sea of negativity?
The latest crisis, in which Samantha Power, an Obama foreign policy adviser, got quoted calling Hillary Clinton “a monster” in an interview with The Scotsman, is the sort of thing that happens all the time in a hot presidential race. (Although we’d like to know why talking to members of the British Commonwealth seems to make this campaign go gaga.) And it’s a good sign that Obama dumped the poor woman. The last thing we need is another president with a loyalty hang-up. But it didn’t necessarily feel like a “Yes we can!” kind of moment.
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New York Times
We live in a great country. Despite all our problems, this is still a nation where parents believe that if their child works hard and plays by the rules, some day he or she may grow up to be a superdelegate.
The Democrats are feeling a little blah right now. True, a six-and-a-half-week slog to the Pennsylvania primary is not the ideal way to spend the spring. But the good news is that voters who are intrigued but a little dubious about Barack Obama will get to see how he performs under pressure.
Admit it, people. When you try to envision how the politics of hope would play out in the real world, things go a bit fuzzy. How’s Obama going to get Republicans to work with Democrats on national health care when Republicans don’t want national health care? How’s he going to run a positive ship in a sea of negativity?
The latest crisis, in which Samantha Power, an Obama foreign policy adviser, got quoted calling Hillary Clinton “a monster” in an interview with The Scotsman, is the sort of thing that happens all the time in a hot presidential race. (Although we’d like to know why talking to members of the British Commonwealth seems to make this campaign go gaga.) And it’s a good sign that Obama dumped the poor woman. The last thing we need is another president with a loyalty hang-up. But it didn’t necessarily feel like a “Yes we can!” kind of moment.
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