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Obama’s Moment in Denver
The Page by Mark Halperin —
... Inside the new TIME:
Obama talks to Karen Tumulty and David von Drehle, drops some veep tea leaves. Read interview here.
Joe Klein asks, “Where’s Obama’s passion?”
Gwen Ifill writes about a new generation of African-American leaders who are stepping up — and Obama is just the best known.
Mike Murphy debates whether Obama should try to win off of the young liberals and well-off ...
Latest Column
Swampland —
On the challenges facing Barack Obama.
Another Kerry?
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Joe Klein is worried: One of the great strengths of the Obama candidacy has been the sense that this is a guy whose blood doesn't boil, who carefully considers the options before he reacts—and that his reaction is always measured and rational. But that's also a weakness: sometimes the most rational response is to rip your opponent's lungs out. ...
Matt Lewis: The Passion of the Obama
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog —
Obama is in danger of allowing a negative meme to develop that says he is next in the long line of effete, overly-intellectual Dems who have failed to win the presidency. ... Could SNL skits be far off??? I can hear it now: "Mr. Obama, if Kitty Dukakis were raped and murdered ..." Over at TIME, Joe Klein worries he lacks passion, and that he ...
Obama's passion
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
TIME columnist Joe Klein writes: “Obama’s measured style worked in the spring but hurt him over the summer ... One of the great strengths of the Obama candidacy has been the sense that this is a guy whose blood doesn’t boil, who carefully considers the options before he reacts ... But that’s also a weakness; sometimes the most rational response is to rip your opponent’s lungs ... That sort of spontaneity—that sort of real passion—is what’s missing from this candidacy. I suspect Obama will have a hard time winning unless he finds some of it.”Obama is ...
Joe Klein Whines: Where’s Barry’s Passion?
Pirate's Cove —
... Poor Joe Klein at Time. He is watching his candidate implode. Reminds me of Don Imus beating his head against a wall after a John Kerry interview while saying “this is my guy, and I don’t know what he is talking about” ...
Joe Klein Whines: Where’s Barry’s Passion?
Stop The ACLU —
Poor Joe Klein at Time . He is watching his candidate implode. Reminds me of Don Imus beating his head against a wall after a John Kerry interview while saying “this is my guy, and I don’t know what he is talking about” A few days before Barack Obama was to announce his choice for Vice President, he was asked at a North Carolina town meeting what qualities he wanted in a running mate. He wandered through a derisive, if desultory, critique of Dick Cheney, then switched gears. “I want somebody … who shares with me a passion to make the lives of the American people better than ...
Townhall.com Staff: What's Hot Friday
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog —
What are the most popular stories around the web this morning? Townhall does the surfing so you don't have to. CNN: Obama Notifies Candidates on Short List New York Times: Brooks: Hoping It's Biden Politico: McCain Family Owns 8 Properties Washington Post: Houses Add Up to a Snag For McCain Time Magazine: Where's Obama's Passion? Wall Street Journal: They're Paying Attention Now ABC News: How Strong Is Russia? FOX News: Harvard Reclaims Top Spot in Latest U.S. News List US News & World Report: Best Colleges: How We ...
To Play Through Pain And Love The Game
pandagon.net - we are the public option —
... This Joe Klein piece on Obama’s passion (or lack thereof) has been getting some play in light of his choice of Scranton’s finest. The gist of it is that Obama isn’t showing his emotions, is too nuanced and cerebral (please browse 2000 and 2004 for the rest of the complaint). ...
Bad Change
Weekly Standard Blog —
... devotes today's column to the need for Obama to attack John McCain. Joe Klein worries that Obama is failing "to define his opponent" and failing, "in all but the most amorphous ways, to define himself." Republican strategist Mike Murphy writes that "many of the old-school party regulars now assigned to loyally wave HOPE and CHANGE signs for the TV cameras in Denver would dearly love to see Obama switch out some of his 'together we can' endive salad for a big populist pile of economic red meat." ...
