Over at FP Passport, Lucy Moore wrote yesterday of the Obama/Clinton race:
Identity politics distracts from the issues, but there’s a reason. Identity matters-maybe not in terms of legislation or policy, but certainly in terms of image. And image can go a long way, especially when you’re the leader of the free world and your face is on every television around the globe, 24 hours a day.
This is an argument you’ll see a lot in the lefty blogosphere–especially with regards to Obama. It goes something like this:
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