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Finally, an article that explains not only why Obama lost Pennsylvania, but why he continues to have difficulty connecting with working-class Democrats. As an Obama supporter who was first drawn to him by his desire to transcend "gutter politics" and those who practice them, I don't want to see him join so many other politicians, including the Clintons, there. However, after reading your insights and analysis, I see that he must. When I saw Clinton sipping (not downing) that shot of Crown Royal, I likened it to Michael Dukakis in the tank and thought it would have...
...wrong lessons." The nomination is, obviously, his to lose. But the presidency will not be won if he doesn't learn that the only way to reach the high-minded conversation he wants, and the country badly needs, is to figure out how to maneuver his way through the gutter...
...streets." Likewise, Monderman rhapsodized that, "Eye contact and the consultation between civilians in public space is the highest quality you can get in a free country." His enduring vision echoes that of a poetic pedestrian from an earlier era - Oscar Wilde, who once mused: "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." Thanks to Monderman, we can now pause to wonder whether we need the gutter...
...tour of statues and museums dedicated to Dear Leaders past and present. But their real job was to keep an eye on us and to control the images we would take back home. For example, when we passed any sort of poverty still life?women washing dishes in the gutter, an old dirty truck piled high with cabbage?they either ordered us to put our cameras down or deleted our pictures after the fact. The guides also had an unsettling habit of taking pictures of us at every tour stop, for reasons they never quite explained. Every once...
...Mitt Romney, his main rival here, only to then play it for a roomful of political reporters. The national pencils and network producers laughed at him for what they viewed as a cynical gambit. And few believed him moments later, when Huckabee said, about his distain for gutter politics, "If you gain the whole world, but you lose your own soul, what does it profit...