Obama: Object in Motion
Here's my post mortem on Super Tuesday as published in my latest L.A. Weekly Column:
The buzzer sounded Tuesday night and the scorecard was clear: Obama had accumulated sufficient momentum to catch up and deadlock with Clinton, but not quite enough to overtake her. Super Tuesday is a split decision — with Obama winning on points... Bottom Line: Obama remains the object in motion ...more
February 7th, 2008 at 10:36 am
The next few weeks will favor Obama. He seems to do well in Caucuses and the “Potomac Primary” is both upscale on income and heavy in black voters. Clinton will have to lay low and wait for Pennsylvania and Ohio down the road and all those latinos in Texas.
Are we having fun yet?
February 7th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
I don’t think Hillary wants the debates just out of desperation. Debating is a medium which shows off her strengths and diminishes his. Obama is something close to a genius at stand-up oratory; it’s a lost art and he may be the best I’ve ever seen. (In fact, given that Obama’s subject matter is inherently less charged, I’d say he’s even better than MLK.) But he’s less sure-footed in the more prosaic debate context. He’s getting better, may soon be able to match Hillary wonk-bite for wonk-bite but he’s not there yet. She may be soporific on the stump but put her in a debate and she’s remarkably fluent, even somewhat warm. It also gives her a chance to mix it up on occasion. For her, it’s the equivalent of a boxer looking to blunt another’s superior reach by getting into a clinch. For him I suppose it make sense to stay out of the clicnch.
February 7th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
I second Evets’ remarks.
March 22nd, 2011 at 7:34 am
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