Our featured topic today is senator Barack Obama. With the political season in full swing, there is potential for really good or bad journalism about our leading politicians and we'd like your help to find the best coverage on the presidential elections. For the next two days, please submit or review quality news and opinions about Barack Obama and check our blog on Wednesday to see what we found.
Our featured story today, "The Choice" by George Packer in the New Yorker, is perhaps the definitive Obama/Hillary article that will come out this week. Upon close examination Clive Davis, at The Spectator, thinks it is "a sympathetic view of the Democratic front -runner." Sometimes the media has a tendency to treat the front-runner like a winner waiting to emerge rather than a candidate, does Packer fall into that trap?
I tend to trust the New Yorker as a source, as does the NewsTrust community, so if there is a bias in favoring Clinton, I imagine it is not malicious.
For me, and also Cyrus Faivar, a freelance journalist in the Bay Area, the definitive except in the article is the following attempt to get at the heart of "the choice" between Obama and Hillary.
"The alternatives facing Democratic voters have been characterized variously as a choice between experience and change, between an insider and an outsider, and between two firsts—a woman and a black man. But perhaps the most important difference between these two politicians—whose policy views, after all, are almost indistinguishable—lies in their rival conceptions of the Presidency. Obama offers himself as a catalyst by which disenchanted Americans can overcome two decades of vicious partisanship, energize our democracy, and restore faith in government. Clinton presents politics as the art of the possible, with change coming incrementally through good governance, a skill that she has honed in her career as advocate, First Lady, and senator. This is the real meaning of the remark she made during one of the New Hampshire debates: “Dr. King’s dream began to be realized when President Lyndon Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, when he was able to get through Congress something that President Kennedy was hopeful to do—the President before had not even tried—but it took a President to get it done.”
Is this summation one the author has inserted or does it really get to the heart of the issue?
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Posted by: Bemacherm | August 25, 2008 at 02:51 PM
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Posted by: ReszelveSus | August 28, 2008 at 06:42 AM
Not even a week after the president election the blond topblogger from Sweden, Linda Ekholm speaks out loud about Obama!
And I really believe this is truly written by heart. Scary!
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Posted by: ThereseJDanielsson | November 10, 2008 at 08:08 PM
Those riots in Oakland are horrible. I understand the frustration and grief, but more violence doesn't accomplish anything.
Posted by: saralehighiversonpa | January 14, 2009 at 09:29 PM
Did you see that CNN article about the riots in Oakland? It's really tragic what happened but the riots don't solve anything.
Posted by: saralehighiversonpa | January 14, 2009 at 11:53 PM
Did you see that CNN article about the riots in Oakland? It's really tragic what happened but the riots don't solve anything.
Posted by: saralehighiversonpa | January 15, 2009 at 02:15 AM