Tag: Barack Obama

  • Joan Didion on Obama

    Maybe you weren’t with me when I linked to Adolph Reed Jr.‘s now infa­mous “Oba­ma No” piece from the pro­gres­sive, but you might find Joan Did­ion’s sober thoughts on the Oba­ma pres­i­den­cy more palat­able. From her essay in the New York Review of Books: No one ever sug­gest­ed that the can­di­date him­self was drink­ing the…