Posted on 12/27/2007 10:45:11 PM PST by Aristotelian
"If you want conventional Washington thinking, I'm not your man. If you want rigid ideology, I'm not your man. If you think that fundamental change can wait, I'm definitely not your man. But if you want to bring this country together . . . then I offer a different choice in this race and a different vision for our future."
--Barack Obama DePaul University, Oct. 2 Ask an Obama supporter what they love about the presidential contender, and some version of this pitch is what you'll hear. Mr. Obama can "heal divisions," can "win hearts and minds." He's going to change the way crummy old Washington does business, get past this red-versus-blue thing, and get on with being president of one truly United States of America.
If the Democratic race has been about anything, it's been about promises of "change." Mr. Obama has made it his signature issue, tapping into a national unease with the status quo, and riding it to within striking distance of Hillary Clinton. What the charismatic young Illinois senator has not yet had to do is explain what shape this change will assume, or how he intends to bring it about. And lucky for him, because it's far from clear Mr. Obama is anything but same old, same old.
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Kucinich aside, and after a quick review of my memory, I think all the Dem candidates are saying nothing more, and even less, than the standard, boilerplate platitudes.
The Dem candidates are flappin’ their mouths more and saying nothing...of course that seems to be the routine for all the “we got a plan” DRats.
Your saying he worse than Hillary?
No way.
You’re saying he worse than Hillary?
No way.
Osama Bin Laden is also actively seeking “change” in America
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