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MORNING MESSAGE: Obama Stakes Claim For Renewed Mandate
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Obama Stakes Claim For Renewed Mandate
DNC Day 3: Obama Stakes Claim For Renewed Mandate
President Obama's powerful acceptance speech gave no ground from his last acceptance speech. Despite the anti-government Tea Party spasm that occurred in between, Obama once again offered voters a vision of representative, responsive and responsible government that takes action to solve problems.
Six Degrees of Social Security: The President, The Senator, and the Billionaire
President Obama and Vice President Biden both gave powerful speeches this evening, summoning the ideal of an inclusive nation and effectively distinguishing their mainstream American views from their opponents' radical right-wing vision. The only real false notes were the passages in which they both embraced a right-wing set of proposals known as "Simpson Bowles."
Must See: Death By China!
You have to see Death By China!
The Culture of Interdependence
First, let me be clear: I take no credit for the messaging or themes of first two nights of the Democratic convention. But in some of the most talked about speeches of the last two nights, I heard echoes of ideas I've been writing about for years. No, it doesn't lead me to think anyone in the White House or at the DNC has been reading my blog posts.
The Best Of The American Spirit?
Michelle Obama's speech last night got rave reviews. (If you didn't see it, you can watch it here.) It was a very well written and well-delivered speech, personal and yet political, subtly showing the differences between the Obama worldview and the Romney worldview.
Silence is Golden: What Democrats Aren't Saying in Charlotte
Here's a new Zen riddle: What is the sound of money not talking?
The Old Dawg Can Still Hunt
The old dawg can still hunt. At the top of his game, gaining energy from the crowd, Bill Clinton, the “old country boy from Arkansas” tore it up last night in Charlotte. Political junkies, pundits of all stripes, and Democratic activists were agog, watching the maestro at work.
DNC Day 2: Stopping The Lies
Democrats have been increasingly frustrated that not even an army of fact-checkers has been able shame the Romney-Ryan campaign from stopping their lies about Medicare savings, welfare requirements, the Janesville GM plant and more.
