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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (35363)	7/18/2008 2:04:37 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (7) \| Respond to of 224724

As Ryan Lizza writes in this week's New Yorker, "perhaps the greatest misconception about Barack Obama is that he is some sort of anti-establishment revolutionary. Rather, every stage of his political career has been marked by an eagerness to accommodate himself to existing institutions rather than tear them down or replace them." Lizza continues: When he was a community organizer, he channelled his work through Chicago’s churches, because they were the main bases of power on the South Side. He was an agnostic when he started, and the work led him to become a practicing Christian. At Harvard, he won the presidency of the Law Review by appealing to the conservatives on the selection panel. In Springfield, rather than challenge the Old Guard Democratic leaders, Obama built a mutually beneficial relationship with them. “You have the power to make a United States senator,” he told Emil Jones in 2003. In his downtime, he played poker with lobbyists and Republican lawmakers. In Washington, he has been a cautious senator and, when he arrived, made a point of not defining himself as an opponent of the Iraq war... He has always played politics by the rules as they exist, not as he would like them to exist. blog.newsweek.com

To: Brumar89 who wrote (35363)	7/18/2008 3:36:55 PM
From: Geoff Altman	Respond to of 224724

Just a side note to illustrate people arriving at conclusions before having any facts..... When LBJ was looking to fill a spot in his administration he'd invite the prospective candidate to meet for lunch and he'd observe the way the person ate. While interviewing over lunch LBJ noticed that the candidate began salting his food without ever tasting it..... LBJ thought this indicative of a person that would make decisions based on insufficient data and he was probably right.... I don't have to tell you that the pre-salter didn't get the job.