Macho Dem: Obama Looks Unbeatable Now
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on May 18th, 2011 4:31 am by HL
Macho Dem: Obama Looks Unbeatable Now
Michael Tomasky, Daily Beast
When presidential campaigns hit crunch time, both sides reach for their most visceral arguments. For liberals, it's the Supreme Court: Yes, Mondale-Dukakis-Gore-Kerry is bland and dissatisfying, but think of the court! For conservatives, it’s the people in the world who want to do America harm, and the longtime Republican conviction, going back at least to the early 1950s “Who Lost China?” debate, that those feeble Democrats won’t keep America safe.The actual record is more complicated—hawkish Democratic presidents marched us into the…
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Managing the Unavoidable in the Mideast
Thomas Friedman, NY Times
Reading the headlines from the Middle East these days "” Christians and Muslims clashing in Egypt, Syria attempting to crush its democracy rebellion and Palestinians climbing over fences into Israel "” you get the sense of a region where the wheels could really start to come off. Thomas L. Friedman In such a moment, President Obama has to show the same decisiveness he showed in tracking down Osama bin Laden. A useful analogy for this moment comes from climate science, where a popular motto says: Given how much climate…
