Everybody Wants to Be a Friend

Congratulations to Mr. Dan Carlson for correctly naming "Firecracker" by Ryan Adams as the Tuesday Song of the Day. Once again, Running Down a Dream's resident alt-country expert does not disappoint a thankful audience.

“Obama is to me very analogous to Robert Kennedy,” Reich said. “The closer you got to him, the more you realized that his magic lay in his effect on others rather than in any specific policies. But he became a very important vehicle. He got young people very excited. He was transformative in the sense of just who he was. And a few things he said about social justice licensed people. Obama does all that, almost effortlessly.”


"The Choice: The Clinton-Obama battle reveals two very different ideas of the Presidency" by George Packer of The New Yorker.