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• What Would Saul Alinsky Do? (A Way-Out Way Out for Obama)

  Posted Tuesday, April 15, 2008 12:01 PM By Melinda Henneberger
  
  Until he walked into a manhole with his remarks about bitter bumpkins, the genius of the Obama campaign was in throwing away the playbook. He regularly violated the time-honored wisdom of Rules #1 (Treat voters like idiots at all times.) and #2 (When Read More...
  Filed under: "cling", '08 election, Barack Obama

• Bonbons for the GOP

  Posted Monday, April 14, 2008 11:29 AM By Emily Bazelon
  
  Great framing, Rachael , and evidence that the real beneficiary of Obama's comment will be not Hillary but McCain, for whom it is a bag of bonbons to be snacked on all fall. Part of what's prompting the wincing and deep doubts, I think, is that Obama Read More...
  Filed under: "cling", '08 election, Barack Obama, John McCain

• Condescension or Pandering: What's It Going To Be?

  Posted Monday, April 14, 2008 11:04 AM By Rachael Larimore
  
  Wow, Melinda , I don't think I could have put it any better. Like you, I hail from a small town whose most vibrant days are well in the past. Downtown was on life support long before Wal-Mart came to town seven or eight years ago; the schools aren't what Read More...
  Filed under: "cling", '08 election, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton

• The Worst Thing I've Heard Obama Say

  Posted Sunday, April 13, 2008 10:34 AM By Melinda Henneberger
  
  Yes, it is galling to be tagged as out of touch by Hillary "Is that sniper fire I hear?' Clinton. Only, she happens to be right: Barack Obama's suggestion that economically suffering small-town Americans are haters who cling to God and guns out of bitterness Read More...
  Filed under: "cling", '08 election, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton

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