Michael Schaffer of TNR riffs on the overuse of analogies in the presidential race:
The best thing about the year in analogy is how diverse the comparisons have been. Almost simultaneously, Obama has been described as 2008's version of 49-state winner Ronald Reagan as well as its incarnation of 49-state loser George McGovern--in fact, he's been compared to every presidential candidate since World War II.I know columnists have to be able to come up with ideas and all that. But this is starting to get out of hand.
All these, of course, are vastly preferable to analogizing every single foreign policy scenario to Munich/1938.
Posted by Stephen Silver at July 24, 2008 10:53 PM