{"id":1662,"date":"2008-07-15T13:51:16","date_gmt":"2008-07-15T20:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=1662"},"modified":"2008-07-15T13:51:16","modified_gmt":"2008-07-15T20:51:16","slug":"interesting-articles-about-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/15\/interesting-articles-about-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Articles about Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New Yorker<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Chicago is not Obama\u2019s home town, but it\u2019s where he chose to forge his identity. Several weeks ago, he moved many of the Democratic National Committee\u2019s operations from Washington to Chicago, making the city the unofficial capital of the Democratic Party; his campaign headquarters are in an office building in the Loop, Chicago\u2019s downtown business district. But Chicago, with its reputation as a center of vicious and corrupt politics, may also be the place that Obama needs to leave behind.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The New York Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n

But there has been little humor about Mr. Obama: about his age, his speaking ability, his intelligence, his family, his physique. And within a late-night landscape dominated by white hosts, white writers, and overwhelmingly white audiences, there has been almost none about his race.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re doing jokes about people in his orbit, not really about him,\u201d said Mike Sweeney, the head writer for Mr. O\u2019Brien on \u201cLate Night.\u201d The jokes will come, representatives of the late-night shows said, when Mr. Obama does or says something that defines him \u2014 in comedy terms.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re carrion birds,\u201d said Jon Stewart, host of \u201cThe Daily Show\u201d on the Comedy Central channel. \u201cWe\u2019re sitting up there saying \u2018Does he seem weak? Is he dehydrated yet? Let\u2019s attack.\u2019 \u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The New York Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cAs President, I will pursue a tough, smart and principled national security strategy \u2014 one that recognizes that we have interests beyond Baghdad, in Kandahar and Karachi, in Tokyo and London, in Beijing and Berlin,\u201d he said. \u201cI will focus this strategy on five goals essential to making America safer: ending the war in Iraq responsibly; finishing the fight against al Qaeda and the Taliban; securing all nuclear weapons and materials from terrorists and rogue states; achieving true energy security; and rebuilding our alliances to meet the challenges of the 21st century.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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