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• Thursday, April 17, 2008 01:40 PM

  @Eric Berry

  Eric, I don't know if you've read any of my recent letters, but I definitely appreciate the question you pose to Joan.

  I think she would say that she writes about her negative perceptions of Barack out of her journalistic duty to really check him out. She wouldn't disagree that we should be very concerned by any policy issues of Hilary that might be dangerous or a continuation of the type of foreign approach we don't want, but I think Joan would want us to place all of her (somewhat)negative reactions to Barack in the "strategy box", think of them as concerns less about how he will govern and more why he might lose to McCain. I've asked her if this is a correct hunch on my part.

  That's my best way of making sense of how she writes about this tuff. I don't agree with it, if it is, but I can make sense of it that way.

  I'm curious if when republicans are slinging mud about Barack's apparent"arrogance" and personality flaws, Joan will consider that type of "observation" to be particularly important as we try to figure out who should be president. But then again, so far we have yet to hear back from Joan as to whether she really believes that Barack has a higher percentage of awful supporters and if that reflects on what kind of president he will be. And that's my biggest question about her most recent musings.

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