Off Message
Madeleine Albright has taken to the pages of the Post to say “I believe the most precious gift the next president could bestow upon America is an end to the politics of fear.” I wonder, then, why, of all the Democratic candidates, she has picked the one most likely to use base appeals to fear as part of her campaign? The last paragraph of her piece sounds like it could be out of an Obama speech:
I pray that the next president, when taking the oath of office, will have uppermost in mind not the need to scare us but, rather, the need restore our faith in the American idea. That idea is based on our sense of unity and our commitment to one another. That idea is grounded in belief in democracy and burnished by our sense of responsibility to generations past and still to come. This is the glue that enabled us to overcome partisan political differences in earlier decades and to keep our nerve in the face of adversaries far more potent than those we face today. Combine faith in our traditions with the confidence to search for value in others, and we will have a far stronger platform for American leadership than any appeal to fear.
While this isn’t a very big complain, seeing that Albright is talking about “our next president”, shouldn’t the Post disclose that she’s a senior Clinton advisor?
