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+ | <let name=data index=Date>2008-09-18</let> | ||
+ | <let name=data index=Author></let> | ||
+ | <let name=data index=Source>The Economist</let> | ||
+ | <let name=data index=Topics>\Barack Obama/campaign\The Case Against Barack Obama</let> | ||
+ | <let name=data index=URL>http://www.economist.com/books/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12252991&CFID=23065298&CFTOKEN=77359466</let> | ||
+ | <let name=data index=Title>Here's looking at you, kid </let> | ||
+ | <let name=data index=TitlePlain>Here's looking at you, kid </let> | ||
+ | <let name=data index=Text><blockquote> | ||
+ | <p>If you find yourself believing that “we are the ones we’ve been waiting for”, or that “this is the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow” or even, ''tout court'', that “yes we can”, the chances are that you are suffering from a severe case of Obamamania.</p> | ||
+ | <p>Tens of millions of Americans and an even larger number of Europeans have fallen victim to the syndrome, which involves a belief that a young black senator from Chicago can cure the world’s ills, in part because of his race, in part because of his obvious intelligence and rhetorical skill; but in no part because of any record of achievement in the past. Fortunately, an inexpensive remedy is at hand.</p> | ||
+ | <p>It comes in the form of a new book by [[David Freddoso]], ''“[[The Case Against Barack Obama]]”''.</p> | ||
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+ | <p>Sometimes, however, Mr Freddoso lets his own partisan nature run away with him. It strikes the reader as odd to make an issue out of the Obamas’ comfortable income, when everyone knows that John McCain and Hillary Clinton both have family fortunes in excess of $100m. On the whole, though, Mr Freddoso raises legitimate points. And he ends with a question Obamamaniacs should ask themselves more often: “Do you hope that Barack Obama will change politics if he becomes president? On what grounds?”</p> | ||
+ | This sets the bar for Obama very high indeed, and one is left with the implication that perhaps one should not vote for Obama if he does not meet it – despite the fact that this is the wrong criterion for a binary/bipolar voting decision. The real criterion is "will he be better than [[John McCain|McCain]]?", and the answer seemed pretty clearly "yes" from the data available up to the end of the election. | ||
+ | </blockquote></let> | ||
− | + | <let name=data index=TextShort>“If you find yourself believing that “we are the ones we’ve been waiting for”, or that “this is the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow” or even, tout court, that “yes we can”, the chances are that you are suffering from a severe case of Obamamania.”</let> | |
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