Thursday, February 28, 2008

An obvious rehash of Hillary + experience

A nice, quick summary of where the Clinton campaign went off the rails. I'd add that experience didn't really work as an argument for her as far as I am concerned--she simply didn't get that much stuff done in the Senate. Not that that's her fault--what sorts of major liberal achievements have we seen in the past few years?--so much as just an inevitable consequence of a closely divided, polarized Senate. And her "experience" failed her in 2002, which she failed to wrap into her experience narrative in such a way that it could have been effective. Had she said something like, "Yeah, Iraq was a mistake. I blew it. But I learnt from it, and I won't let that happen again," I would have been more receptive to her experience argument.
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The Man, The Myth, The Bio

East Bay, California, United States
Problem: I have lots of opinions on politics and culture that I need to vent. If I do not do this I will wind up muttering to myself, and that's only like one or two steps away from being a hobo. Solution: I write two blogs. A political blog that has some evident sympathies (pro-Obama, mostly liberal though I dissent on some issues, like guns and trade) and a culture blog that does, well, cultural essays in a more long-form manner. My particular thing is taking overrated things (movies, mostly, but other things too) down a peg and putting underrated things up a peg. I'm sort of the court of last resort, and I tend to focus on more obscure cultural phenomena.