Tuesday, March 27, 2007

"It bears watching"

Ah, and so it begins.


This tendency to manipulate facts may bear watching in Obama. (After all, we hardly know him.) But while his book is a warning flag, it is also an astounding display of a supple, first-class mind -- not merely a bright fellow, but an insightful one, and the single best piece of writing by a politician since John F. Kennedy's "Profiles in Courage."


Shades of the early days of the Gore and Kerry campaigns. Glenn Greenwald has, as always, more.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Memory can be treacherous. Did Obama remember a Life-magazine clone called Sepia and an article written by John Howard Griffin called "Black like me"? I remember this story about the discrimination which a white man encountered when he turned his skin dark.

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