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The Harvard Business School (HBS) and Kennedy School of Government (KSG) announced yesterday that they will offer a new joint-degree program that will be available to students starting in the fall of 2008.
The Kennedy comparison also delivers a subtle reminder that anyone can be elected president. Kennedy defied all expectations that a Catholic was unelectable; Obama wants to do the same as an African-American. Kennedy was only the second sitting U.S. Senator to be elected president; Obama would be the third...
Of course, Lincoln had even less experience than Obama—he served one term in the House of Representatives before being ousted by the people of his district—yet he too rode a new wave of party politics to become one of our greatest presidents. Like Kennedy...
The point that the Obama campaign is trying to make is ingeniously simple: Obama is this troubled generation’s Kennedy or Lincoln—the inexperienced and unprecedented candidate who breaks out to become a presidential legend.
But while words will win a campaign, ideas made Kennedy and Lincoln influential administrators. Obama has already done a great service in politically energizing so many who had been apathetic, but he cannot rest on his laurels. Good ideas and sound policies should be the next step for the senator?...