S. Carolina has come and gone, with AS swooning like a schoolgirl ("Yes, we can" ...). It was clear (to me) that Obama was going to win, so this is not one I watched so closely.
It's funny (to me) that AS is ready to replace one cult of personality (viz., they way he describes the Clintons), with another, because one could make a case that Obama's ungrounded message of hope inheres in himself as the locus of a change.
CUSTODIANS OF THE PUBLIC TRUST
One of AS's readers thinks she has "evolved" past "The Clintons". You can take a so-called hard look at the Clintons all you want, but the bottomline is that Bill didn't betray the public trust. Nor has Hillary, during her time in the Senate.
With the notable exception of George H.W. Bush during his term can one say the same of any of the GOP Presidents in recent memory?
Almost all the "trust issues" that AS relies on are style points and issues related to getting and holding power. The rest are debates about political possibilities - what people used to mean when they said, "politician".
Monday, January 28, 2008
Monday After South Carolina
