Matt Yglesias

17 Responses to “What About the Policy?”

1. James Gary Says:
   November 29th, 2008 at 12:55 pm

   but as I point out in an article for The National…

   Rebuttals will no doubt be published in the upcoming issue of The Arcade Fire.

2. makkale.blogcu.com Says:
   November 29th, 2008 at 12:56 pm

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3. ssa Says:
   November 29th, 2008 at 1:24 pm

   This is the single greatest mistake Obama has made yet. Hillary is a center-right stooge…

   http://www.sunstateactivist.org/ssablog/

4. kforceone Says:
   November 29th, 2008 at 2:39 pm

   Igloo, if Mangini came back to the Pats who do you think would be in charge? I’m sure Bill would welcome opinions, but Mangini’s a pro and ultimately he falls in line.

   Clinton and Obama are pro’s. The way I see it, Obama likes Clinton, more than we think and simply wants her for this position. And Clinton, she’s no dummy, she knows America is at a nadir and sees an opportunity to be a major player in its resurgence. That beats rote senate work anyday for a person like her.

   This talk about keeping enemies close or eliminating competition for 2012 is lunacy at best.

   k1

5. Richard Steven Hack Says:
   November 29th, 2008 at 4:20 pm

   Matt: “I’m hoping that as the new team is unveiled we’ll hear more statements on policy, and those statements will harken back to the bold approach Obama promised during the campaign.”

   Good luck with that, sucker.

6. Rich Says:
   November 29th, 2008 at 4:56 pm

   At the risk of sounding cynical, I think many of Hillary’s foreign policy positions were intended to inoculate herself from what she perceived as the near certain charges of Democratic weakness from whomever the Republicans nominated for president, because she was convinced of the inevitability of her candidacy for the nomination. In effect, she was running based on campaigns of the past rather than with an eye toward the future.

   It’s almost forgotten now that Hillary was once thought of as the leftist force her husband’s Administration, continually trying to move policy positions in that direction.

   In sum, I think that in her heart and mind, Hillary belongs to the realist school, just like Obama, and will be enthusiastic about effectuating those policy positions.

7. Armando Says:
   November 29th, 2008 at 5:22 pm

   Your article is simply riddled with errors.

   You write “Many of those differences were indeed small. But it’s important to recall that, though the dispute over direct high-level talks with Iran was the highest-profile difference between Clinton and Obama, it was far from the only one. Indeed, their related dispute over Cuba was in some ways more clear-cut, with Obama indicating a desire to break with the isolation policy that’s prevailed since John F Kennedy and Clinton indicating that, like her husband, she had no intention of challenging hard-line orthodoxy.”

   Both statements are false.

   Can you cite actual statements or position papers that prove your assertions? They are false.

8. flory Says:
   November 29th, 2008 at 5:39 pm

   I’m still waiting for someone to write the definitive post on exactly what it is that Hilary’s done that makes her such a great choice for this job.
   Not who she knows or where she lived for eight years but what she herself has done.
   What legislation has she introduced? What policy papers has her staff produced? What letters has she written?
   What?

9. Carl Bentham Says:
   November 29th, 2008 at 5:53 pm

   It hard to imagine that Obama is going to say, refuse to meet with Ahmadinejad or Raul Castro because Hillary wouldn’t have if she were president. I’d assume that Obama has the final say on major diplomatic issues and won’t back off his campaign promises because of Hillary. One could argue that Hillary and Obama have different ideological tilts, but on major issues Obama will be calling the shots.

10. bakho Says:
    November 29th, 2008 at 6:14 pm

    The media can only digest one story at a time. Last week was economy and the economic team. Obama will discuss foreign policy when he rolls out the team.

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