Thursday, August 28, 2008

Obama's Mile-High Speech


Reportedly, Obama's acceptance speech will offer what everyone has been clamoring for -- "substance rather than rhetoric."

As the New York Times editorialized yesterday, Obama needs to be clear about what he and the Democratic Party stand for. Barack Obama should strive to be just as clear as Hillary Rodham Clinton has been about what the Democratic Party stands for:

On Tuesday night, Mrs. Clinton passionately argued that the Democratic Party believes in health care for all, progressive taxation, Social Security, fighting against poverty and for gay rights. The Republicans, she said, support a “government where the privileged come first and everyone else comes last.”

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