Sizing Up Sanford / Obama’s Assault on Medical Privacy
Newly added to the front page: Michael Brendan Dougherty’s newsmaking profile of Mark Sanford, the tough and smart fiscally conservative governor of South Carolina, and Jim Bovard’s look at how Obama’s push to digitize medical records will undermine patient privacy. There’s much more great material in the latest TAC — subscribe today for just $1.25 an issue to get instant access to a PDF copy of the issue (and you get the print mag, of course).
Even if you, like me, are too burned out to even think about 2012, I suspect you’ll still find the Sanford profile to be informative and enjoyable.
Sanford is interesting in contexts other than the presidential discussion. He honestly sounds like he doesn’t need the job the way many other candidates and potential candidates seem to. Is it quite insane to say that this is the biggest qualification for the job? We’ve had too much of ambition and Messiahism already in the Oval Office. If Sanford is what he seems to be, what I’m almost sure he is, then he’d be a dream come true in the White House.