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What does Obama need to do and say?

"He needs to challenge America again," Buffenbarger told me. "He needs to say that we are going to rebuild the middle class and renew our technological base." Obama can't merely promise to repeat the policies of Bill Clinton, he said. The former president was too willing to sign trade deals, he said, and too willing to sometimes let Wall Street get its way.

There was a fair amount of talk among insiders that Obama's economic plans and language remain vague--an argument summarized in The New York Times Magazine by influential reporter David Leonhardt. "Just read that article and you will see what the problem is they have to solve."

In another hotel lobby I ran into another Clinton person--a higher-up who had gotten on board, but who remained skeptical of Obama's ability to make the sale. "The best thing we have going for us is George Bush," said this person, who was busy raising money to pay off Hillary's debt and did not wanted to be quoted by name. "That's how we win: Bush equals McCain. That's going to have be the way we win, the only way we win, this election." 

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  • Posted By: Davole @ 08/28/2008 6:42:26 PM

    hardlyherenorthere -

    Just another example of your pathetic demented blogs!

    Obama already manages to make himself look as ridiculous and incompetent as he is - he doesn't need you to help make him look even worse.

  • Posted By: Davole @ 08/28/2008 6:24:18 PM

    Dems choose Obama in thunderous acclamation
    Yahoo News by David Espo, AP Special Correspondent Wed Aug 27, 7:18 PM ET

    Clinton's call for Obama to be approved by acclamation ??? midway through the traditional roll call of the states ??? was the culmination of a painstaking agreement worked out between the two camps to present a unified front.


    My commentary:

    So, democrats, in order to portray a false unification, schemed to allow politics to trump the democratic process.

    And they are insulted when people don???t refer to them as the democrat(ic) party!

    Yes, the truth is offensive to the democrat party!

  • Posted By: m921 @ 08/28/2008 4:53:20 PM

    YOU ARE RIGHT, THE NUMBER OF HOUSES IS NOT THE ISSUE. YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT THE ISSUE IS HOW MCCAIN CAN TRY TO PAINT OBAMA AS ELISTIST WHEN IN FACT HE HAS A WIFE WORTH 100 MILLION, 500 DOLLARS SHOES, ETC. ITS THE IRONY THAT IS THE POINT HERE NOT THE NUMBER OF HOUSES.

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