Thank you for the optimistic post. If Obama didn't plan this, he can certainly seize the opportunity now.

He should challenge the media to elevate the terms of the debate and to call out both campaigns when they get the facts wrong. Unlike McCain, Obama can stand up to such scrutiny.

Furthermore I would like to hear Obama welcome journalists to be just as respectful of the truth when he is president. I think Obama should tap into the enormous resentment that a lot of us feel after having been blatantly, I mean blatantly lied to for the past eight years. This ties in perfectly well with the vision of transparency in government that underlies many of Obama's proposed policies.

Posted at September 10, 2008 4:36 PM in response to Obama has timed this perfectly

How about what Samantha Power has said publicly about Obama's stance toward Cuba:
Obama, she said, "was the first person to come out and say there has got to be a statue of limitations on a failed policy, and surely five decades is enough to know that this isn't working. So he favors allowing family travel and family remittances as the beginnings of a pathway to normalization."

Posted at April 1, 2008 11:18 AM in response to Obama's Disappointing Incrementalism on Cuba

A thought experiment: imagine that Barack Obama was a white freshman senator with the same temperament, manners, intellect, detailed policy positions and that he had been opposed to the war at the onset and had had the courage to speak out about it publicly when almost no one else was. Tell me he wouldn't be where he is now. Tell me Hilary wouldn't have conceded already to such a candidate.

Posted at March 12, 2008 11:58 AM in response to The Sadness of the Ferraro Saga