Tuesday, February 19, 2008

What is the matter with you, Wisconsin....

Do you not like solutions?

And what about you Virginia, Maryland, D.C., Nebraska, Maine, Louisiana, Kansas, Washington, and Hawaii?

Do you hate solutions?

3 comments:

harrogate said...

Yes, the thing to do now is mock her policy-driven Rhetoric, for the moment of her final eclipse is near.

solon said...

When she began her speech tonight, she said her line "We don't need words, we need solutions."

Again, I may post on this later, but she lacks kairos- the Greek word for knowing the moment. The campaign has been blind to time in this campaign; she cannot see the electoral clock.

And this line represents the problem- she has used the same attack since New Hampshire and it has not worked.

Why doesn't she try to reprhase it again for Texas and Ohio?

What good is policy if she cannot sell it? Go back to Aristotle- ideas without delivery is pointless.

harrogate said...

All acknowledge the importance of delivery. How could we deny it, given the last President's two victories? Given the, 'he's the one I'd rather drink a beer with' narrative?

And, thank God we are now disabused of the fantasy that meaningful distinctions exist between the political parties.

It gives us audacious hope that neither the candidate nor his followers have shown interest in affirming Democratic policy or principals thus far: and, why should they do so now? They know they will get Harrogate's vote in the General, and those other Luddite Democrats who think there are important differences between their Party and the GOP.

Inspire, inspire, inspire. That, after all, heals the biggest problem with America today. We haven't had enough soaring optimism in our national narrative.