Legal Commentary

A Guardedly Hopeful View Of Obama

I somehow missed Roger Clegg?s excellent OpEd in the New York Post last Friday appealing to the better angels of Obama?s nature, his political and legal astuteness, the words and logic of his speeches, and especially to his very identity in laying the foundation for hoping that the new administration will move away from racial preferences. You shouldn?t (miss it).

One of Roger?s many appealing qualities is that he, without engaging in purely wishful thinking, is often able to see a glass that, if not exactly half full, at least has something in it where those of us less discerning, and less optimistic, than he see only emptiness.

As the new Obama administration takes shape and then takes off, there will no doubt be fierce internal struggles between the committed preference pushers in his inner circle and those who really believe it?s time for, as the candidate often put it in different contexts, change we can believe in. Those change agents could do much worse, and no doubt will (there I go again), than to take Roger?s OpEd into battle with them.

Full post as published by Discriminations on November 13, 2008 (boomark / email).