What a Long, Strange Trip It’s Been
Obama has continually been asked to defend something that ought to be at democracy’s heart: the importance of talking to as many people as possible in this complicated and wildly diverse society, of listening with the possibility of learning something new, and of speaking with the possibility of persuading or influencing others.
The McCain-Palin attacks not only involved guilt by association, they also assumed that one must apply a political ...
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Although the usual profusion of articles evaluating the past eight years—as well as the tedious Silly Season that is blessedly finally at its end (there is a God)—are inevitable, it will be left to history to put everything in perspective. And that requires the distance of time.