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Thursday, April 24, 2008
If Sam Nunn is so great...
Daniel Henninger bases his column today around what it means tht David Boren and Sam Nunn have endorsed Barack Obama. He also has praise for the type of politicians Boren and Nunn represent.Both are what some of us nostalgically call Serious Democrats. They represent what the party was, but is no more: sensible on national security, spending and middle-class values. Obama receiving their imprimatur is like hands reaching out from the graves of FDR, JFK and LBJ to announce: "Enough is enough. This man is your nominee. Go forth and fight with the Republicans." Make no mistake: Superdelegates with sway took notice.So what does it mean that such centrists have endorsed Obama, a relatively inexperienced leader who is to the left of either of them ideologically. Henninger thinks it demonstrates the fatigue that many party stalwarts feel about facing another term of Clintons in the White House.
Former Sen. Nunn is sometimes mentioned as a possible running mate for Sen. Obama. In a better world, Sam Nunn (or a David Boren) would have been the party's candidate for president. Such candidacies remain impossible under the iron law of Democratic primary politics: No centrist can secure the party's nomination in a primary system dominated by left-liberal activists.
Perhaps so. But if he thinks Sam Nunn is so wonderful and should have been the candidate now, how come neither Daniel Henninger nor his editors at the Wall Street Journal know which state Nunn represented in the Senate? Henninger writes,Sam Nunn of North CarolinaWe all make such mistakes. Gosh, I make them regularly. But aren't published journalists and their crack editorial staffs supposed to be better than bloggers?
UPDATE: I see that the article has now been corrected so that Sam Nunn is once again from Georgia.Labels: Media
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Daniel Henninger bases his column today around what it means tht David Boren and Sam Nunn have endorsed Barack Obama. He also has praise for the type of politicians Boren and Nunn represent.
Perhaps so. But if he thinks Sam Nunn is so wonderful and should have been the candidate now, how come neither Daniel Henninger nor his editors at the Wall Street Journal know which state Nunn represented in the Senate? Henninger writes,
UPDATE: I see that the article has now been corrected so that Sam Nunn is once again from Georgia.
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Daniel Henninger bases his column today around what it means tht David Boren and Sam Nunn have endorsed Barack Obama. He also has praise for the type of politicians Boren and Nunn represent.
Both are what some of us nostalgically call Serious Democrats. They represent what the party was, but is no more: sensible on national security, spending and middle-class values. Obama receiving their imprimatur is like hands reaching out from the graves of FDR, JFK and LBJ to announce: "Enough is enough. This man is your nominee. Go forth and fight with the Republicans." Make no mistake: Superdelegates with sway took notice.So what does it mean that such centrists have endorsed Obama, a relatively inexperienced leader who is to the left of either of them ideologically. Henninger thinks it demonstrates the fatigue that many party stalwarts feel about facing another term of Clintons in the White House.
Former Sen. Nunn is sometimes mentioned as a possible running mate for Sen. Obama. In a better world, Sam Nunn (or a David Boren) would have been the party's candidate for president. Such candidacies remain impossible under the iron law of Democratic primary politics: No centrist can secure the party's nomination in a primary system dominated by left-liberal activists.
Perhaps so. But if he thinks Sam Nunn is so wonderful and should have been the candidate now, how come neither Daniel Henninger nor his editors at the Wall Street Journal know which state Nunn represented in the Senate? Henninger writes,
Sam Nunn of North CarolinaWe all make such mistakes. Gosh, I make them regularly. But aren't published journalists and their crack editorial staffs supposed to be better than bloggers?
UPDATE: I see that the article has now been corrected so that Sam Nunn is once again from Georgia.
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