Get Real
February 23, 2007
| 1:06 PM
What seems to be mattering most in the early stages of WH'08 is "a different sort of standard," writes Paul Starobin in this week's National Journal. "It's the 'authenticity' standard, the winner being the most appealingly 'authentic' -- as in real, not fake or false -- person in the race. The quotation marks are advisable because authenticity is a deceptively difficult concept to define, especially in the political arena. Authenticity may be about manipulated perceptions of 'the real McCoy' as much as it is about the actual existence of such a figure. No matter. For voters, authenticity has become a Holy Grail." Read more ...
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