NYT columnists on Obama’s success and Clinton’s failure
Two New York Times columnists–Frank Rich and Maureen Dowd–wrote about the race for the Democratic presidential nomination today. And both columns are worth a read, especially if you’re interested learning some of the reasons behind Barack Obama’s phenomenal ability to inspire millions of Americans to take action in an inclusive campaign for change and Hillary Clinton’s passé top-down approach that assumed the nomination could be won by merely showing up and reciting platitudinous speeches about experience.
¿Quién Es Less Macho?
By Maureen Dowd
February 24, 2008If this is truly the Decline and Fall of the Clinton Empire, it is marked by one freaky stroke of bad luck and one striking historical irony.
How likely is it that a woman who finally unfetters herself from one superstar then finds herself eclipsed by another?
And when historians trace how her inevitability dissolved, they will surely note this paradox: The first serious female candidate for president was rejected by voters drawn to the more feminine management style of her male rival.
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The Audacity of Hopelessness
By Frank Rich
February 24, 2008WHEN people one day look back at the remarkable implosion of the Hillary Clinton campaign, they may notice that it both began and ended in the long dark shadow of Iraq.
It’s not just that her candidacy’s central premise — the priceless value of “experience” — was fatally poisoned from the start by her still ill-explained vote to authorize the fiasco. Senator Clinton then compounded that 2002 misjudgment by pursuing a 2008 campaign strategy that uncannily mimicked the disastrous Bush Iraq war plan. After promising a cakewalk to the nomination — “It will be me,” Mrs. Clinton told Katie Couric in November — she was routed by an insurgency.
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Coming soon–”Top ten reasons I support Barack Obama for president of the USA” and “The fat lady is fixing to sing.”
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