Have at it, blogosphere. Don’t forget to write.
The signs never got better, exactly: “There’s white, there’s black, and there’s gray,” a recently retired army recruiting-station commander told me. “Any recruiter who’s successful lives in the gray and goes into the black pretty often.… There’s no way to recruit within the rules and be successful.” That’s from 2005′s “The Recruiters’ War.” There’s a [...]
Ambinder (or, as he’s known around some parts, “Ambers”) has a good point about the Michigan/Florida shenanigans: The seeming kiboshing that was done to the new primaries in Florida and Michigan is, on its face, a huge victory for Obama. But Clinton’s visit tomorrow will press the issue in a way that is bound to [...]
This comment, from KHT, deserves a post of its own: I am a biracial woman, under 30, who identifies as black, just as Obama does. I am also a woman who was raised by her white mother and white grandmother in a white church. As an adult I have found myself in both white and [...]
• “Until this election, presidential campaign merchandising was largely limited to yard signs, lapel pins, bumper stickers and other baubles…This time, the campaigns have still been giving plenty of paraphernalia away, but they’ve also leveraged a growing Web presence to reach a population willing to pay for the same gear, plus many more-elaborate items on [...]
Here’s my take on Obama’s exceptional speech, which defied the usual conventions dictating how candidates should manage a crisis in their campaigns. In addressing the controversy over some of the language in Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s sermons, Obama put a new twist on his message of hope about a post-racial politics in America: he said America’s [...]
I’ll have a lot more to say about Barack Obama’s stunning speech in my print column this week. Right now, though, the immediate, tawdry issue for the Obama campaign is this: How will the media play it? What will the sound bites be on the evening news tonight (especially the local evening news)? After all, [...]
He was very smart not to just go with Romney’s speech. It was a more sedate speech than I’d expected, but one suspects that too much passion might be misinterpreted. As for the content, he said some things that echo arguments liberals (not just black politicians) have made in the past: Wright’s comments are rooted [...]
With a shoutout to Swampland commenters here.
As it were: Clinton has said in her stump speech, “We used to say in the White House that if a place is too dangerous, too small, or too poor, send the First Lady.” Sinbad scoffed at this statement as well: “What kind of president would say ‘Hey man, I can’t go ’cause I might [...]
