In Decrying Obama's Centrism, Drew Westen Ignores Role of Race
Tom Hayden | August 9, 2011
Drew Westen’s brilliant—and strategically placed—essay “What Happened to Obama? [1]” which appeared in the New York Times on Sunday, leaves out an all-important factor in discussing the president’s disappointing centrism: race.
When I asked Westen about this omission, he replied in an e-mail today that it was “mostly space” that caused him to ignore a “great question.” Westen, a white professor at Emory University, helped Obama with the renowned speech on race he delivered as
