Tuesday, January 01, 2008

'Barack Obama's nouvelle vague'

"We know he's a 'hope monger,' but the rest of Obama's unconventional message is elusive." Item by Walter Shapiro in Salon.

On the cusp of the New Year, it is beguiling to believe that Obama's appeal-to-our-better-angels politics represents the wave of the future. But there is also the skeptical feeling that the Bad Old Politics are not yet ready to be dragged offstage by a man with scythe.

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