USF Professor of Politics and Middle East Studies (and formerly a big Obama booster) Stephen Zunes comments on the Biden selection. Zunes sees the selection of a pro-war senator (and a highly influential one at that- the war authorization and its democratic support would not have been possible without Biden) as a betrayal of the anti-war sentiment that got Obama the nomination.
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Obama and... Biden?
Alexander Cockburn on Biden and the state of the race. Cockburn offers his take on how it is that Obama has managed to lose the initiative on virtually every issue. And in politics, as in war, initiative is everything. Once you force your opponent on the defensive, you control the tempo of the contest. When Obama was riding high from his world tour McCain managed to launch an attack from a defensive position and so regain the initiative. The Obama campaign has demonstrated no such capacity.
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