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Thursday, August 28, 2008

Obama's Limited Message

Clinton might have lost in her attempt for the nomination, but Obama's acceptance speech suggests Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign was the pattern to follow -- "it's the economy, stupid." This is striking and somewhat depressing -- as I type, it is pretty far in, and the threat to the Constitution of the last eight years was not mentioned, and Iraq was mentioned but in passing ... connected to the economy. "America, We Are Better Than These Last Eight Years." Yes, but the economy isn't what that statement brings to mind.