Archive for January 26th, 2008
South Carolina shouts
The Obama South Carolina victory was the first really decisive contest yet of the Democratic primary race. His victory speech seemed a powerful tour of his thinking over the past couple weeks, a combination finger wag and group hug. This kind of emotion-getting natural-born speechifying is something we as a nation have been sorely missing [...]
If you’re asking…
Super Tuesday looms. The candidates are beginning to carpet bomb California with advertising. Soon they’ll all be visiting the Hollywood Hills and Silicon Valley and generally conclaving with powerbrokers up and down the coast. They’ll also make stops on the corners, of course, to get with the neighborhood folk and the local TV reporters who [...]
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