Wednesday, July 28, 2004

Da Bomb, Part 2
The Daily Kos takes a look at how the Right is portraying the Obama speech last night. Apparently, he's a conservative in a tailored Democratic suit. Check out the post for a couple of examples (such as from Andrew Sullivan). Here's Kos's final assessment:

The reason Obama has put the Right into a quandry is that he exposed, in one masterful performance, every caricature the Right has of liberalism. He affirmed our belief in government's ability to make life better without conjuring up images of "welfare queens". He affirmed the right every American has to believe in the god of his or her choice, or no god for that matter, without making it a public matter. He affirmed the beauty of multiculturalism, that we are more than white, black, Asian, Latino, or anything else, without feeding the fiction that we all want a balkanized country. He affirmed that unity is an American value, while dividing Americans based on sexual orientation or race is not.

In short, he lay the Right's arguments against liberalism to waste in one relatively short speech.


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