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Obama’s Speech
More on this as I digest it, I expect. My short response is that it was an impressive speech and my initial reaction is that it likely accomplished what he needed to do–inspire, attack, and provide specifics. 1 Now to the questions of bounce, McCain’s veep and the RNC next week. ...
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Obama Defines Change Specifics And Answers And Defines McCain In Historic Speech
The Moderate Voice — ... since John F Kennedy. What he didn’t do was give an airy, abstract, dreamy confection of rhetoric. The McCain campaign set Obama up as a celebrity airhead, a Paris Hilton of wealth and elitism. And he let them portray him that way, and let them over-reach, and let them punch him again and again … and then he turned around and destroyed them. If the Rove Republicans thought they were playing with a patsy, they just got a reality check. –Political Scientist Steven Taylor: More on this as I digest it, I expect. My ...

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