The complaint from the Democrats in the room was that Sen. Barack Obama wasn’t acting enough like… well, they weren’t quite sure: Robert Kennedy, maybe, or Hubert Humphrey, or Bill Clinton in the early 1990s. Obama had no fire, they said. He should be way ahead by now, they said. He needed a creative, sweeping new economic proposal, they said. Also, he needed to call them and ask them for their advice. This was the drift at a Washington social event I attended the other night, the kind that dr
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