Andrew Sullivan makes the case for Obama in the la...
Andrew Sullivan makes the case for Obama in the latest issue of Atlantic Monthly. Some choice quotes:
At its best, the Obama candidacy is about ending a war—not so much the war in Iraq, which now has a momentum that will propel the occupation into the next decade—but the war within America that has prevailed since Vietnam and that shows dangerous signs of intensifying, a nonviolent civil war that has crippled America at the very time the world needs it most. It is a war about war—and about culture and about religion and about race. And in that war, Obama—and Obama alone—offers the possibility of a truce…
A Giuliani-Clinton matchup, favored by the media elite, is a classic intragenerational struggle—with two deeply divisive and ruthless personalities ready to go to the brink… She and Giuliani are conscripts in their generation’s war. To their respective sides, they are war heroes…
[Clinton] has internalized what most Democrats of her generation have internalized: They suspect that the majority is not with them, and so some quotient of discretion, fear, or plain deception is required if they are to advance their objectives… She’s hiding her true feelings. We know it, she knows we know it, and there is no way out of it.
I’m with Sullivan – I’m done with the Boomers.
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CrazyMonk Nevaucuses for Obama?
On one hand, I hope he wins in the primaries, because I can't bear the thought of another Bush or Clinton in charge and he's the first candidate in a long time that doesn't seem to be basing his campaign on anger. I like that.
On the other hand, I'm rooting for a Clinton/Romney campaign because I'm confident that Bloomberg will jump in and that's going to be FUN.
Bloombie '08.
"I'm confident that Bloomberg will jump in and that's going to be FUN."
This is coming from the guy who assured me three years ago that Condi would be the next president.
fuck fuck fuck FUCK ROMNEY.
fuck fuck fuck FUCK ROMNEY.
Wow, who'da thunk Andrew Sullivan would make a persuasive argument for me to vote for a particular candidate? I like that Barack Obama.
One funny line, near the end, though:
"And a Clinton-Giuliani race could be as invigorating as it is utterly predictable."
Does he mean he thinks he know who would win? I have no clue who would win in that race...
A lot of the generational stuff struck me as trumped up to meet the theme, but Sullivan isn't wrong that Clinton, Giuliani et al seem to be stuck in conventional ways of thinking.
It would be nice if we could get some serious coverage of Democrats not named Clinton or Obama.
"And a Clinton-Giuliani race could be as invigorating as it is utterly predictable."
Maybe he meant that the kind of race it would be is more predictable than the outcome?
If the whole "presidency of George Bush" hadn't been an enormous public relations disaster, Condi would have been the Republican nominee.
remember when giuliani/clinton almost happened in the new york senate race, but giuliani dropped out because of cancer?
can we get him cancer again? please?
About mid-way through the article I was feeling the intra-generational showdown theme was getting a bit schematic as well, but it'd be pretty difficult to write such an effectively persuasive analysis on the subject without it, I think. And at the moment I'm feeling pretty fully persuaded.
Obama's paying attention: http://www.breitbart.tv/html/7788.html