Runner’s diary, Monday

I took Friday and the weekend off, but got on the treadmill this morning — temperature and humidity had already risen too much for my liking by the time I was ready to hit the pavement. Managed four miles in 35:52, followed by a 10-minute cool down and five minutes of walking backward on the EFX machine to work my hamstrings.

Today’s iPod choice: Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Blank Generation

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Strategic mistakes

I can understand the anger, but it seems a foolish to target a consistent critic of the war in Iraq because she won’t move impeachment to the top of the policy list. Rather than target Nancy Pelosi, I’m thinking it would be better to create the public momentum for impeachment — something that currently does not exist.

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Troubling responses

The disconnect in these responses is rather troubling. (As is the fact that we still feel we need to ask this question.)

Although 92 percent of the NEWSWEEK Poll’s respondents claim they would vote for a black candidate (up from 83 percent in 1991), only 59 percent believe the country is actually ready for an African-American president (an improvement over 37 percent in a 2000 CBS News poll). Similarly, 86 percent of voters say they would vote for a female commander in chief, but only 58 percent believe the country is ready for one (up from 40 percent in a 1996 CBS poll).

So Americans say they would vote for a black or woman candidate, but they don’t think their neighbors would. It leaves me wondering if this is really just code, a way for poll respondents to dismiss a black or woman candidate without having to take responsibility. Or am I reading too much into it?

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