Out With The Old, In With… Madeleine Albright
I’m going to take a little political hiatus and blog about the rest of that big wide world for a few days, so here is some spring cleaning before I hiate.
Liberal bloggers are already bemoaning Obama’s meander over to the center, now that we’re into the general election. This seems justified when looking at his recently announced foreign policy working group, which appears rather old, stodgy, and fails to signify that refreshing break from the past we’re looking for (Warren Christopher is still alive? Kudos on getting all those votes counted in Florida, Warren). It’s a little disappointing that Obama would just round up the usual suspects on foreign policy (sans pompous ass Richard Holbrooke), when his failure to do so in the primaries was one of the biggest selling points of his campaign.
On the other hand, liberals get way too worked up about small things, like the fact that he cut an add for a conservative Dem in Georgia over a more progressive challenger in the primary. The key to achieving a Congress we can live with is ousting weak Dems for strong ones, but I think Obie has got a lot on his plate right now, and I’m not all that concerned with every Southern Democrat he endorses.
With respect to the media’s sexist treatment of Hillary, I have always felt similar to those during the OJ trial who said it’s too bad Mark Furman framed a guilty man. Which is to say it was unconscionable, it is a bad sign for women and Democratic candidates in the future, but it doesn’t in and of itself justify supporting her candidacy, and should not make us lose sight of the fact that Obama is a badass and Clinton is not. But as a show of unity with women everywhere, we are helping to break the tallest glass ceiling in America; the FTP blogroll! We are adding bloggers Digby and Echidnes to the right side of the menu.
I had some issues with what Tim Russert viewed as the most relevant questions to ask politicians, but there is no doubting that he was a good-hearted man who took his job very seriously. I’m sure I’ll miss him even more once I learn who is going to replace him on MTP.
3 comments June 19th, 2008