Michael Tomasky, The Daily Beast
Biography is a crucial part of any presidential candidate's case to the people. Bill Clinton was the Man From Hope. George H.W. Bush was a war hero, a pilot shot down in the Pacific. All those other war heroes, going back to Zachary Taylor and Franklin Pierce. But Willard Mitt Romney is something new"”the first candidate I know of who can't really run on his biography. He's like the Man Who Isn't There, the man without qualities. Indeed, he may be the first major-party candidate who might become president even though most Americans don't like him....
Biography is a crucial part of any presidential candidate's case to the people. Bill Clinton was the Man From Hope. George H.W. Bush was a war hero, a pilot shot down in the Pacific. All those other war heroes, going back to Zachary Taylor and Franklin Pierce. But Willard Mitt Romney is something new"”the first candidate I know of who can't really run on his biography. He's like the Man Who Isn't There, the man without qualities. Indeed, he may be the first major-party candidate who might become president even though most Americans don't like him....
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