It seems like a longshot, but even now, the Obama administration has begun to face the harsh reality of governing. What would it take for Obama to be a one-term president? MSNBC’s Carlos Watson has some ideas: “This much is clear: we’re officially out of the honeymoon and into the slog stage. His once-impenetrable poll numbers have taken a hit. Independents are reportedly moving away from him. The stimulus package has come under serious fire, and he has to find a way to come up with $5 trillion. Over the next few months, Obama is going to become a singles and doubles hitter—the home runs will be hard to come by.”
Cal Thomas Interviews Bobby Jindal. I think that Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is the best chance the GOP has to win the White House, in either 2012 or 2016. He has all the qualities that the GOP should be looking for in a candidate — he’s intelligent, articulate, likeable, geuinely conservative, and, perhaps most importantly these days, he’s not a rich, old white guy.
The Joshua Generation: Race and the campaign of Barack Obama. This article from The New Yorker by David Remnick is lengthy, but it’s a captivating analysis of how Obama managed to transform the issue of race in this campaign. It’s a must-read if you want to understand where Obama fits in the American narrative of race.
