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In the current issue of Time magazine, Michael Duffy and Nancy Gibbs report on a meeting that took place in Chicago last Labor Day. All of Obama’s experienced advisers told him: “You gotta get down, get dirty, get tough.”
Obama refused. He argued that if he did that, the entire basis for his campaign would evaporate. “If I gotta kneecap her,” he said, “I’m not gonna go there.”
-- David Brooks for The New York Times
After Ohio and Texas, Obama now sees the need to get tougher, and David Brooks sees the peril that Obama assumes in going conventional, since the cardinal premise of his campaing was to bring a different kind of politics to Washington, otherwise he's just a one-term senator running for president.
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In the current issue of Time magazine, Michael Duffy and Nancy Gibbs report on a meeting that took place in Chicago last Labor Day. All of Obama’s experienced advisers told him: “You gotta get down, get dirty, get tough.”
Obama refused. He argued that if he did that, the entire basis for his campaign would evaporate. “If I gotta kneecap her,” he said, “I’m not gonna go there.”
-- David Brooks for The New York Times
After Ohio and Texas, Obama now sees the need to get tougher, and David Brooks sees the peril that Obama assumes in going conventional, since the cardinal premise of his campaing was to bring a different kind of politics to Washington, otherwise he's just a one-term senator running for president.
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Date: 2008-03-07 05:46 pm (UTC)From:Obama refused.
It'll be interesting to see if he'll succumb to the temptation.
Don't do it Obama baby! That'll kill the main reason why we like you! :)