Posted by
Zorro on Wednesday, March 19, 2008 5:11:27 PM
I'm grateful that it's coming into fashion to attack Obama's
nebulous and floating rhetoric, but conservatives should remember that Obama
does have a clear set of policy goals and a well defined agenda for the United States.
The problem is that agenda is hard-left. Thus Obama has two kinds of
supporters: Mushy-minded emotional types who vaguely liberal because the
culture they consume is liberal, and intelligent, intellectually meticulous
hard leftists. This latter group is only forced to join in the gasfest because
if they, and Obama, spent a lot of time talking about policy, he'd be seen as
an unpalatable hard leftist.
This observation isn’t just for the sake of seeing the truth
clearly. It’s Obama’s biggest weakness. The hope business has become a
leviathan not easily destroyed, but if conservatives talk of hope and optimism
and improvement (not just change) in a hopeful, optimistic, and realistic
manner, while simultaneously shifting the subject from rhetoric to policy they
can slowly undermine the whole Obama campaign and have an excellent chance at
the presidency.