Rich: The Republican Resurrection

[RamboLiberal]

THE day before Barack Obama gave The Speech, Hillary Clinton gave a big speech of her own, billed by her campaign as a “major policy address on the war in Iraq.” What, you didn’t hear about it?

Clinton partisans can blame the Obamaphilic press corps for underplaying their candidate’s uncompromising antiwar sentiments. But intentionally or not, the press did Mrs. Clinton a favor. Every time she opens her mouth about Iraq, she reminds voters of how she enabled the catastrophe that has devoured American lives and treasure for five years.

Race has been America’s transcendent issue far longer than that. I share the general view that Mr. Obama’s speech is the most remarkable utterance on the subject by a public figure in modern memory. But what impressed me most was not Mr. Obama’s rhetorical elegance or his nuanced view of both America’s undeniable racial divide and equally undeniable racial progress. The real novelty was to find a politician who didn’t talk down to his audience but instead trusted it to listen to complete, paragraph-long thoughts that couldn’t be reduced to sound bites.

In a political culture where even campaign debates can resemble “Jeopardy,” this is tantamount to revolution. As if to prove the point, some of the Beltway bloviators who had hyped Mitt Romney’s instantly forgotten snake oil on “Faith in America” soon fell to fretting about whether “ordinary Americans” would comprehend Mr. Obama.

Mrs. Clinton is fond of mocking her adversary for offering “just words.” But words can matter, and Mrs. Clinton’s tragedy is that she never realized they could have mattered for her, too. You have to wonder if her Iraq speech would have been greeted with the same shrug if she had tossed away her usual talking points and seized the opportunity to address the war in the same adult way that Mr. Obama addressed race. Mrs. Clinton might have reconnected with the half of her party that has tuned her out.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/23/opinion/23rich.html?hp

[Cha]

1. Good...New Yorkers can

read this in the paper tomorrow.

[MadMaddie]

2. I beg to differ with the writer, the media chose to ignore

McCains gaffs....the media downplayed it.

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This was strikingly apparent last week, when Mr. McCain’s calamitous behavior was relegated to sideshow status by many, if not most, news media. At a time of serious peril for America, the G.O.P.’s presumptive presidential nominee revealed himself to be alarmingly out of touch on both of the most pressing issues roiling the country
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[Doctor_J]

4. Yes, and that will continue.

That's why Clinton needs to bow out of the race, so we can beging spending our time and money revealing the true McCain, since the "news" media won't do it.

[Middle finga]

3. That's a pretty good article, I hope a lot of people read it tomorrow.

It's time for real journalist to step up and help us save this damn country. Looks like Obama speech did connect with some in media at least the print media.

[underpants]

6. Just did- great article

:thumbsup:

[Joe Bacon]

5. Typical Frank "I KISS MC CAIN'S ASS" snarky stuff

Yep, Fat Fart Frank, the liar who fabricated Al Gore and "Love Story" continues his typically half-assed comments. Note how Fat Fark Frank laughs off how LIEberman has to coach ol McPain. Yep, that is because McPain made sure that Fat Fart Frank had plates and plates of his BBQ.

The only person who tells the truth at the SCREW YORK TIMES is Krugman. Everyone else is a lying PRE$$TITUTE hack who wont even go to the bathroom without asking for Roger Stone's permission.