• Obama Hits the Reset Button

  Posted Wednesday, May 07, 2008 11:15 AM | By Melinda Henneberger
  
  
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  Nothing like a good welfare-mom-makes-good story, Emily; look what it did for J.K. Rowling. And though Obama's mom (and everybody else's, for that matter) was obviously so much more than that, this is just the kind of pithy, shorthand description that other Democratic candidates could never really manage, so I'm going to say I can live with it. For me, last night was like jumping into a turquoise infinity pool after a forced march across the desert with maybe a pack of javelina and a few locusts...OK, you get the drift. But isn't it funny how much smarter other people seem when they happen to agree with you? Last night's result suggested that even a 24/7 cable diet of Jeremiah Wright has not done Obama in. And that even a big, shiny gas tax holiday promised by a woman doing one weird Mammy imitation is too 90s for voters now. It suggests - I'm not saying proves, but leads me to hope - that we have learned something since those 1988 debates about the Pledge of Allegiance.
  Filed under: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, '08 election, Wright, Indiana and North Carolina primaries
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