Monday, July 14, 2008

New Yorker Magazine Profile of Obama

A typically long-winded New Yorker profile long on meaningless details and short on analysis.
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Mel Reynolds, a local congressman, was facing charges of sexual assault of a sixteen-year-old campaign volunteer. (He eventually resigned his seat.)
In an article which drowns the reader in minutia, the matter of Mel Reynolds is left strangely left vague. Click here for details of Reynold's reprehensible behavior, his trial, eventual conviction and sentencing to five years in prison. Click here for an account of President Clinton's unconscionable 11th hour pardon
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In itself, this profile doesn't mean that much. I wonder if many people will take the time to do any more than chuckle over the cover drawing, but taken with other indications of media disenchantment, it's looking more like the Democratic convention might be amusing for more than its meals of at least three of the following five colors: red, green, yellow, blue/purple and white (garnishes don‘t count).

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