Comments on: In Case No One Is Noticing http://archpundit.com/blog/2005/06/09/in-case-no-one-is-noticing/ Illinois, From Misery Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:03:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Daddy Warbucks http://archpundit.com/blog/2005/06/09/in-case-no-one-is-noticing/#comment-5536 Daddy Warbucks Mon, 13 Jun 2005 01:29:39 +0000 http://69.89.31.63/~archpund/2005/06/09/in-case-no-one-is-noticing/#comment-5536 Note to ArchPundit, apparently Obama is worried about Howard and said as much in the press. Would be helpful if he could keep his discomfort private and get behind our Chairman. Note to ArchPundit, apparently Obama is worried about Howard and said as much in the press. Would be helpful if he could keep his discomfort private and get behind our Chairman.

]]> By: Vasyl http://archpundit.com/blog/2005/06/09/in-case-no-one-is-noticing/#comment-5535 Vasyl Thu, 09 Jun 2005 10:13:28 +0000 http://69.89.31.63/~archpund/2005/06/09/in-case-no-one-is-noticing/#comment-5535 One of the things I admired most about Bill Clinton was his ability to take difficult policy debates and reduce them to pocket-book issues and examples to which a middle-income wage earner could relate. Obama's speeches -- this one and the Knox College graduation speech -- have a similar quality. However, instead of taking policy debates and relating them to pocketbook, kitchen table issues, Obama manages to relate them to our greater spiritual and moral aspirations. And he does it without sounding pompous or pious. That's a much harder trick than what Clinton was able to do. And it's much more powerful. I am consistently in awe of Obama's ability to inspire. One of the things I admired most about Bill Clinton was his ability to take difficult policy debates and reduce them to pocket-book issues and examples to which a middle-income wage earner could relate.

Obama’s speeches — this one and the Knox College graduation speech — have a similar quality. However, instead of taking policy debates and relating them to pocketbook, kitchen table issues, Obama manages to relate them to our greater spiritual and moral aspirations. And he does it without sounding pompous or pious.

That’s a much harder trick than what Clinton was able to do. And it’s much more powerful.

I am consistently in awe of Obama’s ability to inspire.

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