August 9th, 2011
For those of you keeping score, the third most damaging thing to happen to Obama’s reelect prospects this week was the undertones of the NYT Drew Westin story suggesting that Obama isn’t as smart as we thought coupled with the overtones of Bret Stephens’s WSJ piece this morning. Why are these two data points dangerous for Obama? Because the end logic of the narrative they create leads to the Third Rail of his presidency: affirmative action.
I’m not sure how I’d defuse this if I was David Axlerod. My guess is that I’d go pretty much what they’ve done from the beginning: Trust that America is too racially sensitive to allow itself to even contemplate having those thoughts. (At least until December 2012.)
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