Obama's latest speech
Starting around the 11:00 mark, he does a good job making the case for why he's the more electable candidate against John McCain (a point that I've harped on repeatedly, and one with which Frank Rich and Peggy Noonan, among many others, agree). The rhetoric is largely recycled from past speeches, but I think he delivers it particularly well here. (Though I must say, I was somewhat surprised to learn that lobbyists apparently are not "American people.")
P.S. Interesting slip of the tongue, or at least odd phraseology, where he said, "I'm looking forward to being on the ticket with Mark Warner." Ostensibly, he was just referring to being on the same ballot as Warner in Virginia as the latter runs for U.S. Senate this November -- he made a reference to "riding his coattails" -- but... hmm... Obama/Warner '08? :) Presumably not, given the very Senate candidacy in question. But still.
I noticed that "on the ticket with Warner" remark as well. I came to the same conclusion as yours, but, as you say, still....
Posted by: joe lance | Feb 10, 2008 9:29:26 AM
So apparently Hillary is crying again...
http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//080209/480/37e15e00cf584d47971c72ac6b53fa95/#/080209/480/37e15e00cf584d47971c72ac6b53fa95
I don't understand how Hillary went through eight years as First Lady under constant attack by the Republicans and a very public outing of her husband's affair and not once...NOT ONCE...did you see her cry publicly. Yet in the course of the past month or so you have seen her cry three times in public (keeping in mind crying the first time was credited with her winning New Hampshire).
Sorry, but it really seems to me like Hillary is putting on a performance here.
Posted by: Mad Max, Esquire | Feb 10, 2008 9:40:54 AM