Good article, but am I the only one that gets cold chills whenever Obama or his campaign is compared to a Kennedy? Please. Not that. Not again. Keep hope alive this time!
Obama was able to build a broad coalition reminiscent of Bobby Kennedy’s mythic 1968 campaign
while his victory is not a liberal ideological mandate, it is a mandate for a change away from the polarized politics of our recent past.
It’s said that you campaign in poetry but govern in prose. Now begins the time for President-elect Obama to begin making cabinet appointments and announcing policy priorities that reinforce the inclusive and essentially centrist nature of his realigning victory.
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