Economist: America's
election Up in the air Economist.com.
Excertos:
"Could Mr Obama, simply by dint of being black and having lived in Muslim
Indonesia for
six years as a boy, really change America's international
image so easily? He
would get a hero's welcome, of course—but the next
president will get that
whoever he or she is, simply for not being George
Bush and not having made such
a hash of Iraq. Thereafter, America will be
judged on its actions, not its
words. For instance, Mr Obama shows no
particular sign of being able to
reconcile the need to end the occupation of
Iraq with the need to avoid the
disaster that a power vacuum in the heart of
the Middle East would cause. Tell
us more, said many voters in New
Hampshire: to that extent, they were right to
deny him certain nomination."
"Mrs Clinton, however, also has work to
do—much more work than
simply mentioning “change” a lot...after this political
near-death, she is
back where she started—in the lead. One has to hope, however,
that she has
learnt a few lessons.
These begin with the idea that it is not
enough to
exude competence and reel off endless policy proposals. She must learn
poetry from Mr Obama, just as he needs to learn prose from her. She needs to
listen to voters, not talk at them. Above all, she has to shed that sense of
wounded entitlement that has bedevilled her campaign; she has to show that
the
Clintons are not yesterday's people. Her problem is not just that Mr
Obama could
still catch her; she has reminded many Americans how divisive a
politician she
is. If she wins the primaries, it may be only because core
Democratic groups
(trade unions, the uneducated, the poor, the old) rallied
to her side. And a
nomination does not a president make."
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