The Times is Feeling Frisky!

A political analysis by the NYT today gently bitch-slapped Obama's slight political/theoretical dichotomy. It's no surprise that a law professor/politician would have to compromise some of his principles in the race for the White House, but this graf of an otherwise glowing story is actually refreshing to me:

"Before he outraised every other presidential primary candidate in American history, Mr. Obama marched students through the thickets of campaign finance law. Before he helped redraw his own State Senate district, making it whiter and wealthier, he taught districting as a racially fraught study in how power is secured. And before he posed what may be the ultimate test of racial equality — whether Americans will elect a black president — he led students through African-Americans’ long fight for equal status."

I love Obama and I want him to win. But I also want us to hold him to what we know he believes! Otherwise, we're going to get more of this

Wednesday, July 30, 2008