More Political Timing
Matt's post reminded me of this piece from Time Magazine from the begining of the summer. (Yes, I read Time pretty often, for the same reason all of us read the NYT or the WPost).
This is the best part:
The argument against an Obama candidacy is obvious: he is as green as Kermit the Frog. He is a mere 44 years old and has been a member of the U.S. Senate for less than two years. He sits on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, but he has zero military and national-security experience. He's a very smart guy, a quick learner, but no one is that quick. If he runs and makes a fool of himself, a very promising political career could be suffocated in the crib. But somehow you get the feeling that Obama would not make a fool of himself--indeed, it is far more likely that he would bring a freshness, eloquence and thoughtfulness to Democratic Party politics that have been absent since Bill Clinton was in the hunt. Freshness doesn't last forever. If Obama waits and hangs around the Senate for six to 10 more years, he may wind up sounding like a Senator--which is to say he will no longer have command of the English language--and, worse, he may start thinking like a Washington politician, wizened by the accepted limits of the possible.
Actually, the best reason for Obama to run is precisely that he is young and everybody else seems so old. (bold emphasis added)
This is the best part:
The argument against an Obama candidacy is obvious: he is as green as Kermit the Frog. He is a mere 44 years old and has been a member of the U.S. Senate for less than two years. He sits on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, but he has zero military and national-security experience. He's a very smart guy, a quick learner, but no one is that quick. If he runs and makes a fool of himself, a very promising political career could be suffocated in the crib. But somehow you get the feeling that Obama would not make a fool of himself--indeed, it is far more likely that he would bring a freshness, eloquence and thoughtfulness to Democratic Party politics that have been absent since Bill Clinton was in the hunt. Freshness doesn't last forever. If Obama waits and hangs around the Senate for six to 10 more years, he may wind up sounding like a Senator--which is to say he will no longer have command of the English language--and, worse, he may start thinking like a Washington politician, wizened by the accepted limits of the possible.
Actually, the best reason for Obama to run is precisely that he is young and everybody else seems so old. (bold emphasis added)
posted by Boz at 11:37 AM
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