‘I loved that he cleaned up after himself before leaving an ice cream shop in Wapello, Iowa. He didn’t have to. The event was over and the press had left. He is used to taking care of things himself and I think this is one of the qualities that makes Obama different from so many [...]
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Callie Shell – Travels With Barack
October 22nd, 2008
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What Barack Obama Could Not (and Should Not) Say
March 23rd, 2008
Sam Harris, What Barack Obama Could Not (and Should Not) Say: “Barack Obama delivered a truly brilliant and inspiring speech this week. There were a few things, however, that he did not and could not (and, indeed, should not) say: He did not say that the mess he is in has as much to do [...]
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Jon Favreau (26), chief speechwriter to Barack Obama
February 14th, 2008
‘Jon Favreau (26), chief speechwriter to Senator Barack Obama’ NY Times, What Would Obama Say? “Mr. Favreau, or Favs, as everyone calls him, looks every bit his age, with a baby face and closely shorn stubble. And he leads a team of two other young speechwriters: 26-year-old Adam Frankel, who worked with John F. Kennedy’s [...]
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“We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.”
February 13th, 2008
Adam Gopnik to Hendrik Hertzberg: “Interesting thing, to me at least. If you Google Obama’s wonderful line “We are the ones we’ve been waiting for,” it’s credited right and left, and going back to the nineties, as a bit of Hopi Indian wisdom. I haven’t (a) read this anywhere or (b) seen anything made of [...]
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Can Mrs. Clinton Lose?
February 12th, 2008
Peggy Noonan, Can Mrs. Clinton Lose? “If Hillary Clinton loses, does she know how to lose? What will that be, if she loses? Will she just say, “I concede” and go on vacation at a friend’s house on an island, and then go back to the Senate and wait? Is it possible she could be [...]
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The Clinton-Obama battle reveals two very different ideas of the Presidency
January 28th, 2008
The New Yorker, The Choice. The Clinton-Obama battle reveals two very different ideas of the Presidency: “These rival conceptions of the Presidency—Clinton as executive, Obama as visionary—reflect a deeper difference in how the two candidates analyze what ails the country. Obama’s diagnosis is more fundamental: for him, the illness precedes the Bush years and the [...]
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