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Let’s get really crazy

David Brooks has another good commentary in this mornings New York Times on the similarities and differences between Obama and McCain: But they are very different men. Their policies obviously conflict, but their skills, world views and moral philosophies set them apart, too. One man celebrates communitarian virtues like unity, the other classical virtues like […]

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The Postmodern Politician

“I’m betting on you,” Obama told a rapturous audience in Derry on Sunday afternoon. “I don’t believe change comes from the top down. It comes from the bottom up.” Change will come “if you believe,” Obama declares. “When you’ve got a working majority behind you,” he says at another point, “you can’t be stopped.” Transformation […]