Clever
August 29th, 2008
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It’s Palin
August 29th, 2008
So after criticizing Obama’s inexperience, McCain picks someone with even less experience. And after criticizing Obama for “snubbing” Hillary (who, he tells us, got “millions of votes”), he “snubs” Romney and Huckabee, who also got millions of votes. Apparently, the McCain campaign doesn’t own a mirror…
UPDATE: I think this is a pretty fair analysis of the Palin pick and its implications.
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The Speech
August 29th, 2008
That was a remarkable speech. Obama, deliberately by all appearances, turned down some of the flowing rhetoric and attacked McCain and the Republicans for their failures of the last eight years. He made a fullthroated defense of progressivism and full-throated attack on conservatism as it has been practied in the last eight years. He went directly after the GOP character assassination tactics and treated them with the contempt they deserve. He talked about programs and policies and specific issues. He gave us red meat and post-partisanship. He gave us his own biography and the stories of the people he intends ot help. And he did all of it while sounding more Presidential than perhaps any person in my adult lifetime.
And, most importantly, for the first time in my adul lifetime, the Democratic nominee for President spoke in clear and strong terms about progressive ideals and progressive change. For the first time since, perhaps, 1980, the Democratic Party as an institution is committed to progressive goals. Not a bad speech, not a bad night, and not a bad place to be.
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