tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7930474554560608100.post8090855531093716651..comments2022-03-24T08:17:52.047-07:00Comments on Pandu Nayak's ruminations: Lessig on ObamaPandu Nayakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13339144742641325684noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7930474554560608100.post-11210424958696300732007-11-25T05:39:00.000-08:002007-11-25T05:39:00.000-08:00I am glad Maureen Dowd picked up this rebuttal. T...I am glad Maureen Dowd picked up this rebuttal. The media has yet again bought into what is being offered up by the political machine without any questioning. What are they afraid of- not being invited to the next Clinton press conference ?<BR/>On the topic of Obama being the real deal, I liked this New Yorker piece<BR/>http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/11/26/071126fa_fact_lizza<BR/><BR/><BR/>“Hillary is running, in many ways, a textbook campaign. But it’s a textbook that I think is inadequate to the moment. It’s a textbook that says you don’t answer tough questions directly because it may make you a bigger target in the general election—that you tell people what they want to hear but avoid telling some hard truths.”Raj Ajihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17356917091310259602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7930474554560608100.post-37467473483570451572007-11-21T18:10:00.000-08:002007-11-21T18:10:00.000-08:00Yes, I read Maureen Dowd's op-ed this morning. Sh...Yes, I read Maureen Dowd's op-ed this morning. She really lambasted Mr. Clinton, didn't she.Pandu Nayakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13339144742641325684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7930474554560608100.post-86771944648214400572007-11-21T14:22:00.000-08:002007-11-21T14:22:00.000-08:00I know I will get in trouble for quoting Maureen D...I know I will get in trouble for quoting Maureen Dowd, but she does have some great points to make in today's NYT.<BR/><BR/>Couple of clips:<BR/><BR/>1) Making an economic speech in Knoxville, Iowa, earlier that day, the New York senator had touted her own know-how, saying that “there is one job we can’t afford on-the-job training for — that’s the job of our next president.” Her aides confirmed that she was referring to Obama.<BR/><BR/>Pressed to respond, Obama offered a zinger feathered with amused disdain: “My understanding was that she wasn’t Treasury secretary in the Clinton administration, so I don’t know exactly what experiences she’s claiming.” <BR/><BR/>2) “She hasn’t accomplished anything on her own since getting admitted to Yale Law,” wrote Joan Di Cola, a Boston lawyer, in a letter to The Wall Street Journal this week, adding: “She isn’t Dianne Feinstein, who spent years as mayor of San Francisco before becoming a senator, or Nancy Pelosi, who became Madam Speaker on the strength of her political abilities. All Hillary is, is Mrs. Clinton. She became a partner at the Rose Law Firm because of that, senator of New York because of that, and (heaven help us) she could become president because of that.”<BR/><BR/>OK, I get in double trouble for quoting the Journal being quoted by Maureen Dowd!<BR/><BR/>How strange is this game where W and Laura are now supporting Hillary?<BR/><BR/>AVAVhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07795340199306866533noreply@blogger.com