finknottle Posted September 3, 2008 Posted September 3, 2008 The American voters, they are not intellectuals. If you pander down... You will very likely win. This stuff has been going on since Washington was President and very hotly debated. The very best intellectual will NEVER beat the demagogue... Let alone the best demagogues that money can buy. Are you describing his campaign in the primaries? Talk loftily about change and an end to partisanship, pander to the left wing activists, copy everybody elses positions, and promise no pain?
mot_the_Hoople Posted September 3, 2008 Posted September 3, 2008 Are you describing his campaign in the primaries? Talk loftily about change and an end to partisanship, pander to the left wing activists, copy everybody elses positions, and promise no pain? I was shocked to learn myself Obama was a politician
DC Tom Posted September 3, 2008 Posted September 3, 2008 Campbell Brown questioned whether Sarah Palin's foreign policy experience as defined by the McCain campaign (and Tucker Bounds didn't even try to refute that) qualified her as ready to assume the presidency if something happened to John McCain. She asked him a simple question; provide a single executive decision she made that would qualify her foreign policy experience. There wasn't any. You can argue that Campbell Brown didn't buy into their argument, but it sure seemed like she went out of her way to let the campaign explain Palin's readiness, and they couldn't. Palin has as much foreign policy experience as King Bush II did or Clinton did before their presidencies: none whatsoever. If the McCain campaign is claiming anything else, they're idiots. That was a total setup by Brown...and a completely justified one.
finknottle Posted September 3, 2008 Posted September 3, 2008 He did supervise the Harvard Law Review. That isn't saying much, but it was a step above Scalia, Ginsberg, Roberts, and Breyer when they were on it. The editors are chosen by those volunteering to work on it. It's a popularity contest. Is it any great surprise that an articulate likeable black student would be chosen by a group which had been actively pushing Harvard for greater minority admissions to the law program? This from the Obama-mouthpiece NYT: What a Law Review Does Law reviews, which are edited by students, play a double role at law schools, providing a chance for students to improve their legal research and writing, and at the same time offering judges and scholars a forum for new legal arguments. The Harvard Law Review is generally considered the most widely cited of the student law reviews. On his goals in his new post, Mr. Obama said: ''I personally am interested in pushing a strong minority perspective. I'm fairly opinionated about this. But as president of the law review, I have a limited role as only first among equals.'' Therefore, Mr. Obama said, he would concentrate on making the review a ''forum for debate,'' bringing in new writers and pushing for livelier, more accessible writing. : Change in Selection System Mr. Obama was elected after a meeting of the review's 80 editors that convened Sunday and lasted until early this morning, a participant said. Until the 1970's the editors were picked on the basis of grades, and the president of the Law Review was the student with the highest academic rank. Among these were Elliot L. Richardson, the former Attorney General, and Irwin Griswold, a dean of the Harvard Law School and Solicitor General under Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M. Nixon. That system came under attack in the 1970's and was replaced by a program in which about half the editors are chosen for their grades and the other half are chosen by fellow students after a special writing competition. The new system, disputed when it began, was meant to help insure that minority students became editors of The Law Review. Harvard, like a number of other top law schools, no longer ranks its law students for any purpose including a guide to recruiters. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=h...mp;aq=f&oq=
X. Benedict Posted September 3, 2008 Posted September 3, 2008 The editors are chosen by those volunteering to work on it. It's a popularity contest. Is it any great surprise that an articulate likeable black student would be chosen by a group which had been actively pushing Harvard for greater minority admissions to the law program? This from the Obama-mouthpiece NYT: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=h...mp;aq=f&oq= Making law review editor is a little different than being elected Junior Varsity football captain. Those positions have long term financial and career advantages and are highly coveted. Does this look like a popularity contest: http://www.harvardlawreview.org/membership.shtml
JK2000 Posted September 3, 2008 Posted September 3, 2008 The editors are chosen by those volunteering to work on it. It's a popularity contest. Is it any great surprise that an articulate likeable black student would be chosen by a group which had been actively pushing Harvard for greater minority admissions to the law program? This from the Obama-mouthpiece NYT: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=h...mp;aq=f&oq= Couldn't you say that elections are "popularity contests"?
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