Obama's (underreported) pragmatism

I don't buy the Clinton campaign's mantra that the media has been biased towards Obama - perhaps because the media seems to have adopted it as its own mantra during the last couple of weeks. If anything, I think the media's emphasis on "Obamamania" has played into Clinton's argument that she is better prepared for the office, and that he is all talk.

To the contrary, Obama's campaign website has a very detailed policy platform (some areas, like his technology policy platform, are particularly impressive), and I think anyone who has watched one of the recent debates realizes he has a strong command of the major issues of the day. Moreover, his campaign's promise to transcend the partisan divide is supported by a policy team that has been described as "surprisingly non-ideological." Here are a couple of interesting articles about Obama and his policy advisors (including Austan Goolsbee, the economist who sparked a controversy by discussing NAFTA with Canadian officials):

"The Audacity of Data: Barack Obama's surprisingly non-ideological policy shop" [TNR]
"An hour and a half with Barack Obama" [Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen]
"Obama's policy team loaded with all-stars" [Chicago Tribune]