Newsweek: "McCain, Obama and the Millennial Generation"

[wuushew]

pretty good piece, insane Republican ranting in the comment section though.


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As I read Michael Crowley's excellent profile of McCain assistant, speechwriter and all-around alter ego Mark Salter in the New Republic this morning, I was struck by one section in particular. Frustrated by constant criticism of his boss's oratorical abilities, Salter, Crowley reports, is retreating to his summer cottage in Maine to craft the senator's convention speech--a "task fellow McCainiacs acknowledge will be critical." His plan? To contrast McCain's moments of self-sacrifice, "as when he refused early release from captivity in Vietnam or challenged his own party over campaign finance reform"--Crowley's words, not Salter's--with the "selfishness" of "self-interested" political partisans like Obama, who risk "nothing of substance in their lives" as they flit through a "narcissistic world of Facebook and YouTube and Scarlett Johansson."

Facebook? YouTube? Scarlett? It's almost as if, according to Crowley, Salter sees Obama as--heart be still--a millennial.


http://www.blog.newsweek.com/blogs/stumper/archive/2008/07/17/mccain-obama-and-the-millennial-generation.aspx