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...Obama might steer the spotlight away from Clinton's delegates by making actual news of his own. He would be the first Democrat since Jimmy Carter in 1976 to spring his running mate on the gathered conventioneers, and if his choice is popular on the floor, he might even buy a couple of peaceful news cycles...
...problem: "It doesn't leave much time to integrate the running mate into the campaign and get them up to speed," says veteran Democratic convention planner Michael Berman. With the convention already pushed almost to Labor Day, a slow-starting No. 2 might not be fully deployed, with staff and stump speech, "until sometime in September, and I think that's too late," Berman concludes...
...Also, naming a running mate in the glare of a convention can be risky, as George H.W. Bush learned when he introduced a bouncingly boyish Dan Quayle to skeptical reviews during the 1988 Republican convention in New Orleans. It's probably no coincidence that after that experience, G.O.P. candidates joined the Democrats in rolling out their partners in advance...
...slavery was wrong, was it worth fighting a war to destroy it? Twain seems to have thought so. Indeed, his underappreciated short story A Trial may be viewed as a justification for the Civil War. A Trial tells of a ship's captain who dotes on his first mate, a black man. The ship docks at an island, where Bill Noakes, the self-proclaimed toughest man on the island, charges on board and demands to fight the captain, who promptly dumps him into the water. The next night, the same thing occurs. A week later, evidently enraged by his humiliation...
...analogy to the Civil War is clear. At first Noakes is merely an irritant whom the captain is satisfied merely to fight and hold at bay. Only after Noakes murders the Negro mate does the captain suddenly gird for battle, demanding an end to the man's life despite the objections of the other captains, who seem to want him to be treated more gently. It is by the captain's single-minded will that Noakes is brought to justice--much like Lincoln's single-minded will in fighting a war that began as a struggle over union...