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

[J T. Ramsay]

Thanks for forwarding this. It's given me a shorthand to fend off  
anyone who tries to explain to me why I 'have' to vote for anyone  
this election cycle.

On Jan 30, 2008, at 2:08 PM, Michael Pollak wrote:


>
> Here's entertainment.  Taibbi is fun as always:
>
>     http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/12502
>
> <excerpt>
>
>     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."
>
> <end excerpt>
>
> Michael
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