Word: toobin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this is well-known to Toobin, as is the real problem we are having with the press. It is time, and this is the point that voters must understand, that we stop asking the question, can Anderson win? and begin to ask the question, should...
...have just finished reading Jeffrey Toobin's editorial, "What I did during my summer vacation," and I am perplexed. By all indications, when Toobin came to Boston with the advance team in early August, he was a committed, die-hard Anderson supporter. Now, with the impression that only he can measure the pulse of the nation, and with the egoistic idea that as Toobin goes so goes the nation, Toobin explains why John Anderson is not the candidate of moment in this election...
Specifically, Toobin's article is fascinating for what it fails to recognize about the Anderson campaign. His final sentence, one last jab at a campaign which he apparently considered more a job than a movement of national significance, questions Congressman Anderson's "vision of America...
...Jeff Toobin question Anderson's vision? How can he of all people, having traveled the country with a man who has not stopped campaigning since September of 1979, having worked across the country with field coordinators who believe unflappably in Anderson's conviction and in his goals, how can he write about John Anderson's "lack of a clear vision for the people of the nation"? What Toobin's editorial signifies is one disenchanted liberal's self-indulgent attempt at journalism. But let me try to repair the damage done by Toobin's opus...
...point is that intellectuals, having abandoned the Anderson campaign, will undermine what is so dear and so important to them. People like Jeffrey Toobin, by leaving the Anderson campaign (although few have turned coat in the shiny black print of The Harvard Crimson) stand in their own way. We are at a turning point in the Unity Campaign. We are eligible for federal funds. We have been endorsed by the N.Y. Liberal Party. Nationally televised debates are coming and we stand our first bona fide chance to gain national prominence. But right now we are vulnerable. Until we pass...