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Campaign 2008: What have we learned so far?

By Todd Domke | Thursday, February 14, 2008 | The Boston Globe

“…We’re half-way through the presidential race.

A dozen candidates have quit. Republicans are rallying around John McCain. Democrats are still torn between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

It has been a historic, absurd, expensive contest. What have we learned so far?

Here are some lessons the candidates have taught us, unintentionally….”…BS

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/02/14/what_have_we_learned_so_far?mode=PF

 

 

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2 Responses to “Campaign 2008: What have we learned so far?”

  1. Ian Alterman said:

    We have also learned that revival-type movements that are built around a person, rather than an issue, can quickly become cults of personality, with those involved becoming increasingly demonizing of anyone who dares question or criticize the movement or its leader. And we have learned that people are most susceptible to this type of movement (whether or not it actually provides anything substantially different from alternative non-movements) when they have been beaten down – politically, economically, culturally – and are hungry for “change” (or what they hope and perceive will be “change”) and that their fervor for these movements becomes such that they become blind to even the possibility that little or no such change – as they imagine it – can or will occur, and that the level of expectation of the movement and its leader can only lead to a potentially devastating disappointment when that change does not occur. It is not so much that the emperor has no clothes as that those involved in the movement see the emperor wearing glorious robes when he is actually wearing blue jeans and a t-shirt.

    Posted on 14-Feb-08 at 2:40 pm | Permalink
  2. ben stagg said:

    Maybe it’s just me, but I couldn’t tell you what kind of clothes either of the Democrat candidates are wearing. Once it is established what either of them intend to do, what kind of ‘change’ they intend to instigate, then there’s the job of assesing whether they have the slightest chance of being able to carry it out.

    Posted on 15-Feb-08 at 1:56 am | Permalink

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