Peggy Noonan, in a piece about Barack Obama in the April 18 edition of the Wall Street Journal, pinpoints the crucial qualities of a political spouse. It wasn’t the focus of her article, so I wanted to ensure it got noticed with particularity:
[Michelle Obama] has a great deal that would be attractive in a […]
Entries from April 2008
The Necessary Placidity of Political Spouses
April 19th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Spouses and Family
The Rorschach Candidate
April 1st, 2008 · No Comments
Shelby Steele’s insightful and incisive piece on Barack Obama in the Wall Street Journal as a “bargainer” candidate — a candidate who offers whites racial innocence, and blacks the opportunity to “document the end of inferiority” — bears reading. One of the corollaries to the “bargainer” concept that Steele discusses is the power, and […]
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