Joseph J. Ellis explains how Barack Obama’s message of hope and unity has roots in our deepest political traditions, going back to Lincoln and the Founding Fathers.
Some have criticized Obama’s message as just a bunch of clever speeches. Well, as Obama likes to say, words matter. The message of hope and unity is a powerful one. Let’s hope it’s more powerful than that of the petty politics we have endured over the past several decades.
This is politics for idiots. Take something your opponent says, and distort it to create a straw man argument.
Barack Obama made a simple statement – that the GOP in recent history was the party of ideas because they were challenging conventional wisdom. Bill and Hillary immediately started saying that Obama claimed all the “good ideas” cam from the GOP. Kos rips their ridiculous arguments to shreds here and here.
Bill and Hillary Clinton think the voters are morons. They’re hoping the voters ar morons. It’s their only hope.
He has a point:
The one that is the most problematic is (John) Edwards, who voted for the Patriot Act, campaigns against it. Voted for No Child Left Behind, campaigns against it. Voted for the China trade deal, campaigns against it. Voted for the Iraq war … He uses my voting record exactly as his platform, even though he had the opposite voting record.
When you had the opportunity to vote a certain way in the Senate and you didn’t, and obviously there are times when you make a mistake, the notion that you sort of vote one way when you’re playing the game in Washington and another way when you’re running for president, there’s some of that going on.
She can’t tell the truth. He’s finally starting to hit her on that.
Their answer was pretty lame.
The third thing that happened tonight is that Hillary Clinton and John Edwards disgraced themselves in the minds of debate-watchers everywhere. At some point in each campaign, candidates are asked to name their greatest weakness. Only the lamest political hacks answer that question this way: Goshdarn it, I just care too much. I am too impatient for good things to happen.
Giving that answer is an insult to the art of politics. And yet Edwards and Clinton both gave that answer. They didn’t even give artfully disguised versions of that answer. They gave the straight, unsubtle kindergarten version of that answer. Obama, honestly, admitted that he’s bad at organizing his paperwork. Truly, here is a man willing to stand for change.
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