In Super Tuesday fashion, I've compiled some of my favorite political writing from the past couple of weeks for your reading pleasure if you're interested or really, really bored.
First, we'll start with Ben Smith's blog at Politico. It's a nice, well-reasoned, non-partial (as far as I can tell) account of the campaign. He'll probably be live-blogging during the primaries today. Won't that be fun?
Also at Politico, this article by Roger Simon on Clinton's two-step tactics, which sometimes smack of Bush/Rove and make me a little sick. It gives the sense that either campaign could fall apart at any moment.
A couple things from The New Republic:
John B. Judis, who is unsympathetic to Obama, wrote an article called American Adam, which paints him as a harbinger of American rebirth, something I touched on yesterday.
And this piece called Race Man, making a pretty unsubstantiated attempt to accuse Obama of reverse race-baiting during his campaign.
And this brilliant op-ed with a great title from my personal favorite political commentator Frank Rich of the NYT. If you read nothing else today, please read this.
Finally, a piece that came out today from David Brooks, also of the NYT, who doesn't seem to care for Clinton or Obama, about the night Obama pulled the rug out from under Clinton and the conventional wisdom of the entire Democratic Party. And, just for fun, let's link that speech at the Jefferson Jackson Dinner.
Okay, that ought to keep us busy for a while. Hope your super-mega-ultra-make-or-break-or-do-or-die day is fine (it's going to spring rain in New York!) and to all our friends in Texas, Ohio, Rhode Island and Vermont (because we have tons of friends in Texas, Ohio, Rhode Island and Vermont) please remember to exercise your right to tell someone you think they're better than someone else.
Word up.
mark.
1 comment:
Hill-dog! Can you believe?
At this point, everyone needs to stop for a week and let them sleep. And now that mathematically there is NO way to decide the nominee before the convention, we don't need more debates, we need *discussions.* Get Obama and Clinton up there with Bill Richardson and all the others, plus Nancy Pelosi and Charles Schumer, Al Gore, BILL for God's sake, and hash it the fuck out.
I'm sorry, Hillary: it is not about who is the best person to lead the American people. It is about the PARTY best fit to serve the TRUE interests of the American people. That PARTY will decide -- it crazy sucks, but that's our political system right now. We need to all come together and put everything out there, find some concrete ideas, then run somebody that everyone is behind and everyone believes will give their all to the death to accomplish those ideas.
That's extraordinarily idealistic. More later, and more on Mackers.
Post a Comment