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Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Brooks: Obama and the Kennedy Mystique

Check out this op-ed by the New York Times' David Brooks:

Something fundamental has shifted in the Democratic Party... The Kennedys and Obama hit the same contrasts again and again in their speeches: the high road versus the low road; inspiration versus calculation; future versus the past; and most of all, service versus selfishness.

“With Barack Obama, we will turn the page on the old politics of misrepresentation and distortion,” Senator Kennedy declared. “With Barack Obama, there is a new national leader who has given America a different kind of campaign — a campaign not just about himself, but about all of us,” he said. The Clintons started this fight, and in his grand and graceful way, Kennedy returned the volley with added speed.


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Posted by Metavirus at 1/29/2008 01:20:00 PM  

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