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...perfect speech for a skeptical nation. In some ways, the heart of it was near the end, when Obama directly confronted a country that has lost faith in government - and an opposing party that preys on that cynicism...
...delivered that, "I get it," perfectly, conversationally: It said, "I know what you guys are thinking." And the rest of the speech - every sentence, every paragraph - reflected that knowledge. His mission was to win over a doubtful nation, to convince us that he was a pragmatist, not a dreamer. Indeed, he used the word "dream" only once or twice. He didn't even talk about the "American Dream." He called it the "American Promise." He didn't tell us that he was different from Martin Luther King and the civil rights generation of black leadership; he showed...
...said. It was time for a change. His stories of the problems of the people he met along the way, the collateral damage of the Bush presidency, came closest to cliché - they weren't nearly as convincing as the stunning parade of Average Americans that preceded his speech, including a laid-off factory worker named Barney Smith who delivered the immortal line, "We need a government that cares more about Barney Smith than Smith Barney...
...normal year, a year when the public would have a week or two to digest this night, my guess is that this speech would have a dramatic impact on the race - and it still might. But by tomorrow night, it won't even be the lead story on the evening news. McCain's vice presidential selection will be. And then McCain will have the luxury of going second - batting last - next week, staging a convention that will, no doubt, lacerate Obama and the Democrats and then climax with McCain telling his incredible life story. By this time next week, Obama...
...Both Democrats and Republicans openly acknowledge the importance of woman swing voters this cycle. At the Democratic convention in Denver, women were featured prominently and consistently on the stage, culminating in Hillary Clinton's speech Tuesday night, when she thanked her "sisterhood of the traveling pant suits...