When Hope Trumped Experience
What May Well Be TV
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s Best Drama
It may indeed be the case that "The Wire" has been overlooked or ignored by Hollywood ("Good Mourning, Baltimore," Jan. 14). But it is certainly worth noting that the second season (2003) of this outstanding series was honored with a George Foster Peabody Award, the oldest award for electronic media in the world and, for many, the most prestigious. The citation accompanying the award reads, in part, "The intensity of the series rises not so much from crimes committed and solved as from the moral struggles faced by those people whose entire lives are being transformed." The show's relentless critical dramatization of America's urban crises has remained central to the series.
Horace Newcomb, Director
George Foster Peabody Awards
University of Georgia
Athens, Ga.
Corrections
An item in the Periscope section of the Jan. 21 issue mischaracterized New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's use of the phrase "shuck and jive" as a direct reference to the political style of Sen. Barack Obama. In fact, Cuomo, a Hillary Clinton supporter, was speaking in broad terms about how candidates interact with voters in Iowa and New Hampshire, according to a review of the transcript by The New York Times.
In "The Pilot vs. The preacher" (Jan. 14), we said that former John McCain political consultant Mike Murphy had once been a Navy pilot. In fact, he has never been a Navy pilot, nor has he ever served in the armed forces. NEWSWEEK regrets the errors.
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Posted By: MissyE @ 03/11/2008 9:45:41 AM
Comment: Hilary Clinton doe s indeed have experience but very little of it has to do with serving the community, bringing people together, listening,shaping policy, managing her campaign staff, or trying to maintain a successful marriage. A lot of men, women, children, and minorities who have not snapped to attention and jumped on her bandwagon have been hurt by her bimbo squad (for tellng the truth), gone to jail (for doing her dirtywork), stepped on/victimized/exploited (for being poor), and have never received a single thing but her shaking finger in the tv screen telling us how strong she is and how much she likes to fight. No one wants to sign up for 4 years of that.
Posted By: bps422 @ 02/08/2008 11:49:43 AM
Comment: Inspirational vs. Informational
Thanks to 24/7 cable news channel, I have been able to hear and see a lot more of Senators Obama and Clinton. I have concluded, based on this information, two candidates are waging a philosophical war about their view of the world and issues our country is facing. And that is: What it should be vs. what it can be.
When I hear the inspiring speech by Senator Obama, I visualize this possibility of what our nation/world should be ???with 100% probability. When I hear Senator Clinton, I visualize the reality of our what nation/world can be, a possibility tempered with a dose of probability. Senator Obama in many respects is a clean sheet of paper- no history, no record and no baggage- which bodes well for him as candidate. But as a president, one can conclude that his idealistic vision and the choice he makes of advisors in his inner circle and cabinet, who most likely will share his vision and will shape his presidency. This, big unknown and uncertainty should be a concern to lot of democrats and independents. We know a lot about Senator Clinton and know how her presidency will look like and what her policies will be regarding National Security, Foreign Policy, and And Universal Health Care. We quite don???t know what Senator Obama will do when faced with the reality of these issues.
We have potentially three presidential candidates -Senators McCann, Obama and Clinton, one of who will be next president of our country. Based on the positions of these senators, my conclusion is that Senator McCann is conservative right; Senator Clinton is centrist, and then Senator Obama who are in the liberal left. No matter who becomes the president, the country will experience a change in direction. With Senators McCann and Obama the change will be hard right or hard left .I believe the country is not ready for either of these directions. The expectation set by Senator Obama of what our country should be and in the relations with foreign government leaders, that there is a real concern that those expectations will be never be met and that world will see us a preacher and not as a world leader. Our willingness to readily engage in dialogue with every political leader in the world, will very likely raise the expectations an demands from these countries and drag us in the regional and local political issues from which it will be hard to extricate ourselves. The policy that citizens of our country will ratify is the policies in the center. Therefore at the end, Senator Clinton, with her feet on the ground, is well suited and well positioned and is the right candidate to provide a realistic policy approach to deal with problems with enormous implications to our country
Posted By: shiva1 @ 01/23/2008 9:24:35 PM
Comment: The spectacle of a former President assuming the role of a Hit Man for his wife???s primary campaign is a repulsive disgrace. In the recent South Carolina debate Hillary Clinton attempted to dismiss the enormous influence and power of a former President???s advocacy by making the ridiculous assertion that each candidate had a passionate spouse supporting their cause.
Bill Clinton???s ???passions??? have been painfully well documented and have nothing to do with Michelle Obama. Senator Obama is committed to ending the partisan divide that has debilitated Washington and build a broad based, inclusive majority to drive change. In contrast, the Clintons are lusting for the opportunity to fan the flames of scorched earth politics, perpetuating the dysfunctional status quoi.
The Clinton two-headed machine will do whatever it takes; pander, distort, triangulate, fabricate, smear, lie, and pretend to cry, in order to hold onto and expand their power. As a former supporter of Bill Clinton, I will sit on the sidelines in November, as will millions of other Obama supporters, if his wife prevails in the Democratic primary. With 87% of Republicans strongly disapproving of her, she would energize their base to a degree that would be beyond Karl Rove???s wildest fantasy, thus ensuring another loss for the Democrats.
The country faces enormous challenges and can not afford to continue the twenty year Bush/Clinton infighting and gridlock that has polarized the country in a Red state/Blue state mentality. Barrack Obama will build a diverse coalition to bring people of every persuasion together in pursuit of the common good. In addition, he is uniquely suited to restore our nation???s tarnished global image and articulate an eloquent, inspirational voice to an America that we can once again be proud of. It is time to have the courage to elect Barrack Obama as the next President of the United States .
Robert Luciano
Atlanta, GA