What Counts as an Issue in the Clinton-Obama Race? - CommonDreams.org

Obama understands the importance of values, connection, authenticity, trust, and identity... The Clintonian policy wonks don't seem to understand any of this. Full Story »

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by Jim Lang - Jan. 31, 2008

This is a rather transparent partisan piece favoring Obama. It makes its arguments by setting up strawmen or weakmen (using the terminology from the Scientific American article recently posted) posing as Clinton or New York times positions, then knocks them down with undocumented Obama positions. While there could be some truth in the analysis, it is well hidden by the excesses.

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by Andy Jamieson - Jan. 31, 2008

Lakoff illustrates "framing" with this article. Obama = Values. Clinton = Triangulation. The article illustrates his position and his ideas very well. The real story is in the comments under the article. "Framing" may be important in this election, but so is "anger."

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