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Obama has denounced what he calls Karl Rove--style negative campaigning, asserting that voters are looking for a fresh brand of leadership. The Illinois Senator has never faced a rough general-election contest and on four separate primary days has failed to drive Hillary Clinton from the race, each time exhibiting a touch of entitlement and defensiveness rather than a fighting spirit...
...Seneca’s annual Red Party was devoid of communist ideology and Karl Marx was not invited...but that didn’t stop hundreds of students from attending. The event, held last Thursday night at the Hyatt Regency in Cambridge, was a success. The Red Party, a Seneca tradition started nine years ago, was previously held in the Roxy, a Boston club, before a 2007 Boston law restricted entry into nightclubs to prevent underage drinking. According to Emma Moretzsohn ’09, the president of The Seneca, the group chose to keep the event open to everyone...
...then-girlfriend Jillian; he cannot conceive of marriage as a possibility in the wake of political disaster. This is the only perspective the novel presents. Though Gessen implicitly acknowledges that this perspective is flawed and at times ridiculous (as when Mark likens his sexual fumblings to the German communist Karl Liebnicht’s failed revolution), he presents no alternative. Even at the end of the novel, in 2008, the fictional Keith still thinks in political terms: his friends’ weddings are insignificant because “the Bush years were winding down disgracefully, the Iraq war was lost...
...litism" in proper historical context. George Will located Obama securely in Adlai Stevenson's wine cellar, representing the effete strand of liberalism that corrupted F.D.R.'s party of the working people. William Kristol went straight for the main chance, positing Obama as a direct descendant of - yes - Karl Marx, who famously proclaimed religion to be the "opiate" of the masses. As the Marx meme fluttered across Fox News, you could almost hear the vast sigh of relief: Obama's gaffe had put Republican propagandists back in their comfort zone. Rather than fight a defensive election over the Bush debacles...
...Zafran stressed that the Dems’ press release had not been intended to squelch political debate. “It’s just a question of why [Karl Rove] of all people to invite,” he said. “People know the name but I don’t think they always know what these guys have done.” In fact, Zafran suggested to me that this denouncement was, essentially, “the same thing that happened on Columbia’s campus when Ahmadinejad came.” Mahmoud Ahmadinejad...