Incompetent leadership makes racists color-blind.

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Andrew Sullivan pointed us to a Sunday Times article on Obama's journey across Texas, Ohio and Rhode Island.

It seems that Obama has been reading some history, possibly Doris Kearns Goodwin's excellent Team of Rivals, an excellent biography of Abraham Lincoln, an Illinois legislator who rose from humble beginnings to become President during a troubled time. He's planning on taking some pages from Lincoln's book:

Obama believes he will be able to neutralise McCain by drawing on the expertise of independent Republicans such as Hagel and Lugar, who is regarded by Obama as a potential secretary of state.

Larry Korb, a defence official under President Ronald Reagan who is backing Obama, said: "By putting a Republican in the Pentagon and the State Department you send a signal to Congress and the American people that issues of national security are above politics."

Korb recalled that President John F Kennedy appointed Robert McNamara, a Republican, as defence secretary in 1961. "Hagel is not only a Republican but a military veteran who would reassure the troops that there was somebody in the Pentagon who understood their hopes, concerns and fears," he said.


My mother, an ardent Hillary hater (like many educated women of Senator Clinton's age) is a firm believer in the "Bradley Effect" where voters will publicly support a black candidate, but alone with their inner prejudices in the booth, pull the lever for the white guy. After reading this quote, I have to question that:

Richard Reardon, 64, a security officer and veteran, said: "I'll be honest. Maybe 20 years ago, I'd never have voted for a black man, but after the Bushes and the Clintons, give the man a chance."

Not to be flip about this, but there is Hope in the air.

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