Wednesday, November 16, 2011

The Carterization of Barack Obama

By Charles Pierce at Esquire:

In a bright autumn thirty-one years ago, as Jimmy Carter was running for reelection, his presidency was dying in a thousand different places. It was dying in South Dakota, where voters were preparing to vote out George McGovern. It was dying in Idaho, where voters were preparing to roast Frank Church on the same spit. It was dying in Indiana, where Birch Bayh was about to become a former senator as well. And another one of those places was a union hall in Youngstown, Ohio, where nobody famous was working at all.

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