Via reddit, I just read this story.
Sometimes, it’s really amazing how the world works…
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George Will on Obama’s candidacy today:
McCain’s problem might turn out to be the fact that Obama is the Democrats’ Reagan. Obama’s rhetorical cotton candy lacks Reagan’s ideological nourishment, but he is Reaganesque in two important senses: People like listening to him, and his manner lulls his adversaries into underestimating his sheer toughness – the tempered steel beneath the sleek suits.
I think Will misses the way Obama is re-shaping the political conversation with his inspirational and often-times vague sounding pronouncements. (Would Will call the Gettysburg Address “rhetorical cotton candy”?) But he senses Obama’s toughness in a way that others – for example, Maureen Dowd – does not.
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And Ms. Clinton has apparently launched her strategy for the coming weeks – claiming Obama can’t win. So far today, her campaign has said:
- White people support her.
- Democrats can’t win with just “eggheads and African-Americans.”
- Obama is a “sure loser.”
Coming up next (or again):
- Can’t win without old people.
- Obama is a girlie man.
If Mr. Koch was speaking out of turn – as opposed to as part of her plan – than it could be plausibly said that she is still trying to get the Vice Presidential slot.