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12 Jan 2009 11:36 am
The Squeaky Wheel
Ezra Klein explains the lesson to be learned from Obama picking Rev. Gene Robinson to speak:
Politicians respond to incentives. To noise. To anger.
Warren, on some level, was a response to the loud protestations of
evangelicals who believed the Democratic Party had no place for them.
It's hard to see Robinson is anything but a response to progressive
activists who sense that Obama was more willing to risk cross those who
supported him than those who opposed him. Erase the anger from either
side and it's not worth Obama -- or any president -- taking the risk to
placate them. But this is a step in the right direction. This is
genuinely inclusive. If it was the plan all along, the Obama
administration sure did a good job keeping the secret. And if it
wasn't, then equality activists have something to be proud of this
morning. They changed the incentives.
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