There's a lot missing from the coverage - and, indeed, from the debate, because Democrats won't talk about it. Race is one - possibly - another is education: specifically, resentment of the teaching unions and the awful effects of 'producer capture' and their resistance to educational reform. Also, the 'machine politics' that dominates the Democratic party in the Northern states and the way that southern Democrats resent it. Although their own organisation isn't so clean either: vote early, vote often, as they say in Louisiana.
Personally, I'd like to see Obama win both the nomination and the election; but the pesimist in me thinks that we'll end up with McCain and a fundamentalist running-mate who'll end up President in the next election but one. Or sooner: McCain's not a young man.
Whoever wins, I fear that the divided and partisan nature of the polity and the political intitutions is going to worsen. If you think the House Republicans were bad under Clinton (B) - they would've burned down the White House to get him out and they revelled in the damage that the Lewinsky affair eventually did to the Presidency - consider what they might do to the hated enemy Clinton (H).
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Date: 2008-03-16 02:08 am (UTC)There's a lot missing from the coverage - and, indeed, from the debate, because Democrats won't talk about it. Race is one - possibly - another is education: specifically, resentment of the teaching unions and the awful effects of 'producer capture' and their resistance to educational reform. Also, the 'machine politics' that dominates the Democratic party in the Northern states and the way that southern Democrats resent it. Although their own organisation isn't so clean either: vote early, vote often, as they say in Louisiana.
Personally, I'd like to see Obama win both the nomination and the election; but the pesimist in me thinks that we'll end up with McCain and a fundamentalist running-mate who'll end up President in the next election but one. Or sooner: McCain's not a young man.
Whoever wins, I fear that the divided and partisan nature of the polity and the political intitutions is going to worsen. If you think the House Republicans were bad under Clinton (B) - they would've burned down the White House to get him out and they revelled in the damage that the Lewinsky affair eventually did to the Presidency - consider what they might do to the hated enemy Clinton (H).