Obama: Howard Wolfson's conversion
Posted: Monday, September 01, 2008 9:09 AM by Mark Murray
In a Washington Post op-ed, Wolfson writes, “For 18 months, I listened to Obama on television, sometimes intently, often just barely -- background noise to a running series of conference calls and meetings and e-mails. In person, my attention undivided, I saw something of what so many others had seen for so long.”
”Progress in America is never cheap, and even today history exacts a price for Obama's victory -- the dreams of electing the first female president, the dreams of so many who rushed toward Hillary Clinton on rope lines across America and refused to give up her hand and their hopes. Today these dreams are giving way to another kind of progress. For me, the presidential campaign began in a crowded Iowa hall, where I saw a man my age lift up a daughter around my daughter's age and tell her that one day she could be president. Last week things came nearly full circle, when I saw another man my age lift up another child and say the very same thing.”
The New York Times looks at how Obama and Biden are adjusting to life as a political couple. “In their first weekend on the road together, with the Democratic convention behind them, Mr. Biden seemed to be easily adapting to opening his sentences with ‘One of the things Barack talked about,’ before finishing his thought with an answer he might have given when he was challenging Mr. Obama in the primary only a year ago.”
The Washington Post adds, “Obama picked Biden as his running mate in part because his colleague from Delaware brings foreign policy heft and a working-class Catholic pedigree to the Democratic ticket. But as the two barnstormed through the Rust Belt on their first campaign swing together over the holiday weekend, it was clear that they also possessed a more elusive political quality: chemistry.”
