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...JOEL KLEIN...
...Questioning Obama As a Barack Obama supporter, I was excited that Joe Klein had an interview with Obama [Nov. 3]. I felt that a serious turn in reporting was exactly what the country needed. However, the interview itself was disappointing. Klein refers almost apologetically to an earlier interview in which Obama "grew a bit testy when I pushed him on the need for universal health insurance and a more aggressive global-warming policy." Instead of continuing to push, Klein came off as merely pulling the Obama wagon toward the presidential finish line. Please, Mr. Klein, we finally have in Obama...
...exclusive" interview with Obama, yet you missed the opportunity to elicit some answers from the Democratic candidate. For that, Klein might have had to bring up any one of dozens of serious policy, experience and belief questions that might not serve the campaign's narrative. It is indeed sad that the first time Obama is likely to actually feel any grilling is in the boiler room of the Oval Office. Jeffrey C. Kastelic, Cranberry Township...
This special election issue looks both forward and backward, from Nancy Gibbs' virtuoso cover story to Klein's take on the best-run campaign he's ever seen to Michael Grunwald's assessment of the tasks facing the new President to T.D. Jakes on what it means to have a black President to Richard Norton Smith's wise essay on the end of the Reagan era to our great photographer Callie Shell's signature pictures of Obama behind the scenes, where she has been positioned for more than two years...
...Page, and our political blog, Swampland, was a round-the-clock buffet of ideas, observations and anecdotes. Our national political correspondent Karen Tumulty was everywhere. Michael Scherer covered John McCain; Jay Newton-Small was on Obama, and Nathan Thornburgh excelled on Sarah Palin. And of course, the remarkable Joe Klein may have had his greatest election cycle since he first began covering presidential campaigns in 1976. In addition to TIME's celebrated political team, the magazine and TIME.com had 30 correspondents and reporters following the vote on Election Day, from Miami to Billings, Mont., from Roanoke, Va., to Honolulu...