On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Charles Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > You raise a very important question. So far Obama has proved himself > to have tremendous confidence and political judgment. This is not at > all consistent with his apparent recent timidity. The only logical > explanation is that Obama is saving up his political capital for > something big. I have no idea what that might be, but right now it is > too soon to tell what to expect from President Obama. > -raghu > > ^^^^^^ > CB: I don't know. Seems to me that his main presidential campaign strategy > was to be sort of timid, not too uppity, not attacking, not being aggressive, > not fighting, uniting not dividing, compromising (flaccid ?) - and with good > judgment. How much you wanna bet his political judgment is still better than > Krugman's and PEN-L ? >
Charles, If I understand you correctly you are saying the reason for his caution is that because of lingering racism, Obama is not likely to get much slack even for minor mis-steps? The burden of being the First Black Anything? Can you develop this in a bit more detail? -raghu. -- "Why is the man (or woman) who invests all your money called a broker?" - George Carlin _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
