The Writer’s Coin

I’m intrigued by Obama—he may or may not be the president I’ve been wanting for a long time. Maybe.

But even if he isn’t, if this whole honesty and change bit of his is just that, a bit, then at least he’s the first one to really make me believe it.

In the piece, the crux of the race between Hillary Clinton and Obama is boiled down:

“This is precisely the argument that I have with Senator Clinton,” Obama said. “This is what I mean by a textbook campaign. I think there is a conventional wisdom, and this is part of the reason I think Senator Clinton’s campaign has up until now been so well received by the national press.” In other words, political journalists have rewarded the Clinton campaign for its tactical proficiency rather than criticized it for policy inconsistencies.

This idea that the media is giving Clinton glowing reviews because of the way she’s playing the game is interesting. And that Obama, a skilled politician himself (as the article goes on to assert), is playing this card is interesting in a meta sort of way. It reeks of honesty and transparency, which is the whole idea. Now we’ll just have to see if it’s enough to unseat Hillary.

PS I know this is politics but that paragraph of the piece was so interesting I had to post it here and discuss it a little bit.

Tags: new yorker, politics