What made the casting of the portly Hamilton more consequential at the time was that Captain Harold Dobey was an authoritative figure, not confined by any ethnicity.
A boy may be falling out of the sky, but whether there is enough macaroni salad at the deli counter is a problem a thousand times more consequential to those who make their living running deli counters.
"One irony of this tension, as it played out over eight years, is that Clinton in the end proved to be a more effective and more consequential president during those times when he was disciplined by political caution," Harris concludes.
"This time is, unfortunately, more consequential," a senior administration official said.
But before long he was back with Durenberger, this time in a more consequential role.
This ongoing struggle was at no time more fierce — or more consequential — than during the Civil War.
Perhaps another reason that it was harder to simply shrug off these comments was because of another, far more consequential, story in the news at the time.
But what also should be mentioned is the interaction between the two men a year later at the time of the far more consequential Cuban missile crisis.
Presumably, with all these far more consequential matters on his plate, Obama spent little time thinking about Sarah Palin.
