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My friends, I promise you, I am fired up and ready to go.

Who in god's name convinced John McCain to organize last night's speech around the theme of "hope," and then end it this way?          "And my friends, I promise you, I am fired up and ready to go."        I respect the guy, in a wary way, and I was looking forward to a decent general election campaign.  The policy differences with McCain will be visible without Paul Krugman and a microscope.       But if McCain's campaign strategy is to become Barack, and then "dig what we all say" with a lot of air quotes, this thing is just going to be too sad to watch.  Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but it's godawful embarrassing politics.  I know Barack has the energy and the new ideas -- but for jeez sakes, John, don't concede that at the start of the game.  You'll spoil the whole thing.


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I resent your glib humor and look forward to further discussions of mandates post-haste.

Until then, kudos to Senator Obama for his Grammy for the audiobook version of The Audacity Of Hope ... Good for him, but until he's laid out all of his policy positions on audiocassette, well, all I can say is, hope is not a plan ((or, if in fact there is a plan, why hasn't that nice boy Barack bothered to put it into a format that doesn't require me to read? ))


*not bothered*

idiot

Oh, nevermind.

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