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The article credits the Democratic underdog with: the 1986 Tax Reform Act, prescience regarding the American high-tech boom, earnestness, an "active social conscience," and "political individuality."
This dialogue has the eerie earnestness of a testimonial in an aspirin commercial, along with a dig at Clinton: James Marshall isn't a good president because he feels our pain.
Sam Schulman complains in the Wall Street Journal that despite the excellent material, Eisler "cannot capture" the essence of Byron's power "because her earnestness misses his seductive combination of modesty, irony, self-doubt and self-confidence."
But since this factor confounds Time 's choice of Roosevelt over Churchill (who was more brave and honest), Time makes it a team game, arguing that Eleanor Roosevelt supplied the earnestness and uncompromising principle her husband lacked.
They are not simply characters who display contrived earnestness and advertise virtues they don't have, like the big smile and self-bestowed nickname Honest John , your friendly usedcar dealer.