Re: marco rubio

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/tobin/380027

LIVE BLOG: The Son of Exiles

by Jonathan S. Tobin

I agree with John about Marco Rubio's potential for winning even higher 
offices in the future. While the Democrats spent most of this year trying 
to portray the conservative Rubio and his Tea Party supporters as 
extremist nuts, it may be that the real analogy here is with the rise of 
Barack Obama in his Senate race in Illinois. In his speech, Rubio reminded 
the country that no matter where he goes in life, he will "always be the 
son of exiles." The rise of a Hispanic Republican, the son of immigrants 
who fled Communist Cuba, is, even on a night of great victories for his 
party, perhaps the most encouraging moment for the GOP.

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http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/greenwald/380042

LIVE BLOG: The Rubio-Obama Analogy

by Abe Greenwald

Jonathan, I agree with you completely. What's interesting is that Rubio 
not only claims an affecting personal narrative; it's a narrative that 
incorporates an organic backdrop of American exceptionalism. On the level 
of ideas, this makes for a stunning and sincere American story. 
Politically, it gives him an exponential edge on the Obama precedent.

Obama's claim that his very existence is the product of an only-in-America 
story never quite made sense. As he frames it, it is the unlikely meeting, 
in Hawaii, of his Kenyan father and Kansan mother that translates into a 
uniquely American tale. But in truth, people from different countries can 
meet and couple off almost anywhere that allows a modicum of international 
travel. The story of Barack Obama Sr. and Stanley Ann Dunham is a story of 
American *geography*. Marco Rubio's story is of another type entirely. As 
the son of Cuban exiles who came to America specifically to capitalize on 
its freedoms, Rubio's only-in-America narrative is ideologically 
constitutive of, and concordant with, his political bearing. That's the 
kind of power that transcends charisma.

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