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Sunday’s NYT: The Drive-by Edition

By Glynnis on November 2, 2008 8:37 PM

But certainly the single most revelatory moment of the campaign — about the political establishment, not Obama — arrived in June when he reversed his position on taking public financing. This was a huge flip-flop (if no bigger than McCain’s on the Bush tax cuts). But the reaction was priceless. Suddenly the political world discovered that far from being some exotic hothouse flower, Obama was a pol from Chicago. Up until then it rarely occurred to anyone that he had to be a ruthless competitor, not merely a sweet-talking orator, to reach the top of a political machine even rougher than the Clinton machine he had brought down. Whether that makes him more black or more white remains unresolved.

The downside of the world being flat, us all being connected, etc.

The city that never sleeps has a dimmer switch.

A night out with Chris Matthews: ‘If you don’t get newsprint, you don’t get the peripheral vision — you don’t pick up the odd story.’

The Week in Review may need some hand-holding after Tuesday.

The Business section appears somewhat calmer this week.

Ha! Central Park can turn you into a felon after midnight!

The NYC protest also rises.

In search of lost time the art gallery version.

A long time ago in a galaxy far far away.

‘Here’s what strikes me this election eve: I can’t remember a presidential campaign that was so disconnected from the actual challenges of governing that will confront the winner the morning after.’

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