In Berlin two weeks ago, Obama's speech was justified solely by the fact that he was giving it. He offered no policy and — not being a president — really had no reason to be there other than to tell people, essentially, "now is the moment."
He informed the throbbing masses, bathing in his charisma the way hippies
wallowed in the mud at Woodstock, that the greatest threat facing the world is the possibility we might allow "new walls to divide us from one another." Nuclear war? Feh. No, walls, walls are the danger. Of course, these new walls aren't real. Some might even say they're just words.
But not Barack Obama.
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
A Call to Arms, or a Call to Words?
Since our good man/instigator C"C"C has dragged me back in (a la Pacino in the Godfather movie we should never mention), here's a delightful and short piece by my good friend Jonah Goldberg via Real Clear Politics. I think this hints at the never-ending contrast of meaning vs. truth as it pertains to liberals. The end is my favorite part:
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It's obviously telling that Obama's poll numbers haven't enjoyed the expected push since returning from his European Tour o' Rhetoric 2008.
With all of this talk about "Change we can believe in" and the supposedly newfound energy in the Democrat base, I am reminded of a statement by an election analyst from back in '04, which, to paraphrase, basically said that in every presidential election, each candidate pretty much starts out with 45% of the popular vote in the bag, and that the key to victory more or less is to capture the majority of the remaining ten percent. It's a simple hypothesis, yes, but a compelling one - and one that ultimately, I think, has been verified by history.
This election will be no different - and the recent polls showing Obama's once mighty lead is diminishing prove it. Let's hope that the key ten percent - the key to victory in 2008 - are the ones who believe in change brought about by action, not mere words.
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