Don't bash Barack

I was disturbed to come across a short piece by Cassandra West in your April issue ("Yes, We Can... Do What?").

The main point of this article is certainly unobjectionable: We should demand a bit of steak with our sizzle, some specifics beyond the slogans. On her way to making this point, however, the author went out of her way to impugn Sen. Barack Obama's campaign. West seemed to convey that Obama's candidacy (more than any other) was filled with empty puffery.

Perhaps if she had not followed that with another segment mocking the mockable New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd for mocking Sen. Hillary Clinton, I would not have gotten quite the same subtly partisan message ...

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