Reply #50: Huh? [View All]

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"I just happen to think that taking advantage of that powerful symbolism will make it harder to generate enough popular support to enact real policy reform down the road. It reinforces the myth that so many Americans are desperate to believe anyway."

I don't follow your logic at all. In fact, I think it's the total opposite.

Have you read Wealth and Democracy. Phillips happens to think that not considering the candidate's biography was a big reason Bush beat the Democrats in 2000. He hates Clinton, so he doesn't come out an say it specifically, but suggests that if the demcorats ran a candidate with Clinton's background in 2000 they would have been able to speak with more conviction and credibility about class issues and middle class opportunity.

Ignore biography at your peril.