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There's still a difference between being an icon of change and an agent of change. And there is a difference as well between being a fine philosopher king and a strong presidential challenger.
-- Ellen Goodman at RealClearPolitics.com
Ms. Goodman sounds one of the notes that concerns me about Obama. Is the man capable of more than high-sounding rhetoric and the pablum of unity? The Republicans are going to fight, and fight hard and dirty and mean. I think it would be horribly naive to imagine that you can stay above that like goody two-shoes. You'll find yourself in the emergency ward like a gang-rape victim.
I'd hate to see the Republicans turn Obama into another Rodney King. Not to mention the horror of seeing another fundamentalist Republican take the White House.
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There's still a difference between being an icon of change and an agent of change. And there is a difference as well between being a fine philosopher king and a strong presidential challenger.
-- Ellen Goodman at RealClearPolitics.com
Ms. Goodman sounds one of the notes that concerns me about Obama. Is the man capable of more than high-sounding rhetoric and the pablum of unity? The Republicans are going to fight, and fight hard and dirty and mean. I think it would be horribly naive to imagine that you can stay above that like goody two-shoes. You'll find yourself in the emergency ward like a gang-rape victim.
I'd hate to see the Republicans turn Obama into another Rodney King. Not to mention the horror of seeing another fundamentalist Republican take the White House.
