The questions were somewhat better, tonight. Still, no "vision" for what "restore our standing" really means.
A CHANCE TO DO MORE THAN RUN AGAINST BUSH - A NEW VISION
The country is ripe for a revolutionary change in foreign policy, I think. The door is wide open to a new doctrine on how to handle the perceived Hegemony of the U.S. in the world and the decline of the U.S.'s relative standing as large nations like China and India and Brazil develop, over the next generations, in the context of combating global "jihad", as well.
CARE WITH THE DETAILS
At the risk of being too contrary, the lore that the tax cuts all favored the rich is ... not completely true. Facts are stubborn things - careful! (Bush actually took people off the tax rolls, too...)
OVERCONFIDENCE WATCH
When Carville said that the good news is that this is the Democrats' election to talk themselves out of. The bad news is that they are perfectly capable of doing that.
When Obama asserted - and Hillary agreed - that the Democrats have a better understanding of what is going on in Iraq than do the Republicans, I winced. I continue to see the ideological approach of either side as running hard up against an approach based solely on the facts-on-the-ground. One wouldn't think it, but it is possible, with plenty of time yet to run, that this issue is still to be hotly contested, despite 2006.
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Conversation Time at Kodak
