Book Tour Candidate
Want to be the President of the United States? Go on a book tour.
An article on Slate.com argues something like that. (Or so I think. Here are other views from a book tour.) To quote the article from Slate:
Political assumptions can remain constant for long periods and then change very quickly. And so they have in the approximately 10 days since the publication of Barack Obama’s book The Audacity of Hope. In the brief time he’s been on book tour, Obama has overthrown much of the reigning conventional wisdom about what’s likely to happen in the 2008 campaign, how shrewd politicians ought to behave, and what the informal rules of the American system really are. Consider the following statements thought true by the political class in early October but called into question by month’s end.
1. Hillary Clinton is the front-runner for the Democratic nomination.
2. John McCain can beat anyone the Democrats put up.
3. Democrats have a problem with religion.
4. Old liberalism is dead.
5. Extreme partisanship works.
6. Politicians must tread carefully.
7. The bubble must pop.
