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Goodbye To All That
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — Steve Chapman expresses the core reason for Obama's success: From the moment he vaulted into national consciousness with his inspiring speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, this theme has lain at the heart of his approach and his appeal. "We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around in our libraries in the Red States," he reminded us then. "We coach Little League in the Blue States and yes, we've got some gay friends in the Red States."It is a ...

Hip to the Hype
N/A — ... How did he do that? The poet Yeats might ask how do you separate the messenger from the message, the dancer from the dance. “It is a message of fundamental unity and good will, at a time when politics often resembles Henry Adams’ mordant description: “the systematic organization of hatreds.” ...

OBAMA: THE NEW LEFT TRIUMPHANT
Right Wing Nut House — ... us. This is evident in the left’s constant caterwauling about ordinary Americans “voting against their own interests” in electing Republicans. Well, if people aren’t smart enough to know what they want, Obama and the liberals will tell them. Even Obama haters out there have to admire the way he has obscured this message with a combination of liberal boilerplate and soothing nostrums about an American paradise where there is no argument, no bitter partisanship, only peace and harmony. Steve Chapman correctly understands that this is a message that cuts across religious, racial, ...