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RE: Palin speech

Submitted September 4, 2008 - 12:56 am by Chris C (not verified)

I agree this is a 50 +1 strategy, but with a shrinking base it will be much harder to get to 50. So they'll slash and burn through the American public, scorched earth all the way.  But what I think Obama can do better than anyone is communicate how those slash and burn tactics are directed at all Americans, not just at him.

The case I hope to hear is simple -- Republicans run for president by slagging half the country, e.g. California (via S.F.) and the entire East Coast. They bash city dwellers and those who went to college.  They sneer at anyone who thinks that clean air or water or a clean planet is not a bad idea.  In fact, they bash anyone who disagrees with them.

And yet they want to lead all of us.

Obama would put it more artfully, in his More Perfect Union kind of way.  But he should shame them over how badly they disparage so many of the Americans they claim to want to lead. And then explain how that approach has led us into the ditch we're in, and how coming together is the only way to get us out of it.

Are we ready for that message after 16 years of culture war, plus 5 years in Iraq?  I bet Obama reads the Zeitgeist that way, and I bet he's right.

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