Peggy Noonan told Tim Russert that she knows a Clinton aide who WANTS to openly support Obama, but he in a sensitive position which prevents him from doing so.
Noonan's broader point was that she feels certain that Clinton supporters will, if Obama is the nominee, come together and support him. She also said she believes the opposite is not so likely. There was talk among the panel of Hillary's silly Bosnia story - so easy to prove wrong - and a basic feeling among a large portion of the voting public that Hillary simply is not honest.
In a separate taping - "The Tim Russert Show" - Doris Kearns Goodwin made what I believe to be an excellent point by way of a suggestion to Obama.
She thinks he needs to broaden his message of hope by pointing to times in our history in which elevated rhetoric and inspiring leaders actually moved us as a nation to bring about change. His message, she said, needs to be connected to real-life examples where the hope for change produced change. She cited Labor Laws that insured maximum hours and minimum wages, Food and Drug reforms, Civil Rights legislation.
On a completely different note, on this day where we learned that an influential Muslim living in Italy converted yesterday to Catholicism
(www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/03/22/pope.muslim.convert.ap/index.html?eref=rss_topstories)...
...there is an interesting editorial in today's Dallas Morning News that addresses one New Yorker's rage after 9/11 that so consumed him he was urged by his wife to seek counseling from a Christian-based therapist.
Check it out because the writer brings the piece around rather deftly to Obama's having remained a member of his church.
(http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/points/stories/DN-subdreher_23edi.ART.State.
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