newyorker.com - 11/4/2008
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ObamainCleveland.jpg Obama seems a bit grave to me these days. The death of his grandmother has edged his public mood with sadness, but this heaviness preceded it. Compare the closing-days portraits of the two candidates in the Times : I’d rather spend the final stretch in the company of the ...
newyorker.com - 11/4/2008
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Early this morning, the Obama family voted at
the Beulah Shoesmith Elementary School, in Hyde Park. Long...
after they had gone, the lawn in front of the school was filled with reporters, mostly Europeans, filming voters. While I was talking to an ...
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newyorker.com - 11/11/2008
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In September, 1932, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the Democratic
nominee for President, was asked by a reporter for...
his view of the job that he was seeking. “The Presidency is not merely an administrative office,” Roosevelt said. ...
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George Packer: How the economic crisis can help Obama ...
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The Job Ahead?
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Packer senses Obama's fear.
Fear and Strength
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire —
... "I'm just afraid that I may not have the strength to do this job. After you leave me tonight, Jimmy, I am going to pray. I am going to pray that God will help me, that he will give me the strength and the guidance to do this job and to do it right. I hope that you will pray for me, too, Jimmy."
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt, quoted in Traitor to His Class, talking to his son James on the night of his landslide victory over Herbert Hoover in 1932. Hat tip: George Packer.
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