Letters to the Editor
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Obama would offer a "clean, invigorating break"?
Hardly.
Obama is yet another media-created politician whose main talent is raising gobs of cash from burned-out voters starving for any semblance of freshness and hope.
His main rationale for running was...well, that it was the best time. That's it. On every policy issue, it feels like he and his staff frantically cobbled positions together the night before.
Clinton is proving to be a master sail-trimmer, tacking both left and right depending on the issue, even as she plays the media like a fiddle. Obama is actually slower and more turgid on the uptake, regardless of how his image precedes him.
I read somewhere that he's the most popular Democrat among professors and college students. If so, he reminds me of another Democrat, one who inspired passion in a limited audience; who was actually more conservative than his admirers realized; and whose hype was finally worse than his bite: Adlai Stevenson.
Or, if you need a more up-to-date metaphor, Obama is like another young Democratic Senator spouting on about fluffy "new politics of change": Gary Hart.