[lbo-talk] Taibbi's latest column on Clinton/Obama

[Michael Pollak]

Here's entertainment.  Taibbi is fun as always:

    http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/12502

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    There's no denying the clear difference in the

    two campaign styles. In Barack Obama versus Hillary Clinton, we've

    basically got Kennedy-Nixon redux, and I mean that in the most negative

    possible sense for both of them -- a pair of superficial, posturing

    conservatives selling highly similar political packages using different

    emotional strategies. Obama is selling free trade and employer-based

    health care and an unclear Iraqi exit strategy using looks, charisma

    and optimism, while Hillary is selling much the same using hard, cold

    reality, "prose not poetry," managerial competence over "vision."

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Michael