To clarify: the title is excerpted from Act 1 of Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost. The full quote goes: "Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile; So ere you find where light in darkness lies, Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes." It's a warning against spending too much of your life in scholarly pursuits.
Day By Day
Friday, October 02, 2009
The Chicago Debacle
Obama/Chicago's failure is substantively insignificant, but it gives the media a pivot point on which to change the narrative, and that is very significant. A lot of deeply-held assumptions about Obama blew up in their faces and now they are searching for a new line of argument. It will be interesting to see what direction they take.