Reply #1: The Baez endorsement in particular impressed me, because... [View All]

[ralbertson]

Endorsements are a tricky thing, they can either be meaningless or very meaningful depending on who's making them, when they're made, why they're made, and most important, *how* they're made.

This one just blew me away -- because of who it comes from, why it's coming at this time, and most important, how it was delivered.

This wasn't done on a rally stage, at a press conference, on camera, or even in a guest op-ed piece published in a high-profile paper. It quietly appeared as just another one of a series of ordinary letters-to-the-editor replies to a piece the Chron had published earlier in the week, the same kind of LTTE that you or I might have written.

No matter how one may feel about the person being endorsed here, I think the quotidian delivery channel used in this particular instance says a great deal about the person who made the endorsement, and adds a lot of credence to the meaning of her words as well as pointing up the unprecedented nature of her making an endorsement at all.