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Authors, sign in!It seems that the Democrats have been sucked into letting the last week of the election be about the horse race aspects of the campaigns for President, House and Senate. All the blogs and news sites are talking about are the "numbers": how big a win for Obama, how many takeaways from the R's in the House, how close the D's will get to filibuster-proof in the Senate.
Where is the message? How about talking about we need a big win to put the vested interests back into their cages? How about telling the voters, in a cohesive, comprehensive, cogent way that when three of the four possible partisan permutations (D President w/R Congress, R President w/R Congress, R President w/D Congress) have failed and brought us to the brink of economic, environmental and extra-territorial cataclysm, the only real choice is the fourth and final combination, Democrat President, Democrat Congress? How about we tell the voters that if they want a broken system fixed, we need to install new parts?
People are not going to give us the majorities we crave just to be with a winner: we have to show them how they get to be the winners by making us the winners.
Although history may not mean much to some voters, to a lot of them, it is effective to recall that when we last faced financial times as tough as these, a Democrat President and Democrat Congress accomplished the salvation of the nation.
Obama, Pelosi and Schumer should be on the same page, giving the voters some hope and an option other than to make us the winners of this horse race. Americans love sports metaphors and we should be telling the voters that a winning team needs a good quarterback, good line, good receivers and running backs and we don't build those teams by picking players from the other team.
Published October 28, 2008 by John T. Bird |
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I agree. However, I worry that your particular football metaphor might backfire in this era of NFL free-agency :)
Posted by Peter Tramel
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October 29, 2008 11:51 PM
Posted on October 29, 2008 23:51