9:43 p.m. In Houston, Obama encourages 20,000 people to vote today or tomorrow, using early voting rules. Is he like unto an ... impulse buy? Good grief.
9:47 p.m. Obama enlisting people along the way. A very healthy way to harness the energy. Still just a tad ungrounded. Should he pick one or two things that will be key, first-term touchstones, like healthcare reform and maybe election reform?
9:51 p.m. Story time. Reagan was way better. Sorry. Despite his rhetorical capabilities, he's not a story teller.
9:52 p.m. Fierce urgency of now. Some trouble communicating what that means, except "we cannot wait". Does 'fierce urgency' relates to the moral urgency of entrenched injustice(s)?
9:56 p.m. Politics is a problem, a divide. Challenge the special interests and ourselves, to be better neighbors, citizens, and parents. Turn the page. Is it "cynical" to suggest that all this is fine as is, but not grounded, without some amount of ... concretization, some crystallization of what is on the next page, exactly?
10:00 "We will lower your premiums by $2,500 a year." Four years from now, hold onto your hat. I'd guess it is just as likely that prices for insurance might go up, before they come down.
10:02 "Don't believe in government doing what we can do for ourselves", and CEO pay is wrong an needs to change. Is this a non-sequitur? Populist tax cuts ... how can we pay for this, when we have revenue problems? Is this simple, olf-fashioned vote pandering?
10:04 Guarantee the best education possible. Problem is a lack of will, because it is "somebody else's problem". "Every child is our problem and responsibility". Okay. GOP is fine with that, until they have to open their wallet to prove it, mostly, so ...
10:06 Rest of stump speech ... G'nite.
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
liveblogging
