Obama's success tied to his eloquence

[tabatha]

A few words in defense of words.

This, in light of the latest knock on Sen. Barack Obama, which is that, while he's good with words, words are all he's got. He is eloquent and inspiring, this analysis goes, but eloquence and inspiration do not a president make.


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What some of us don't understand is that Obama is not running a campaign; he is rallying a movement. After seven years of what may go down as the worst presidency ever, after the grime of the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal, after dreary years of internecine sniping where ideological purity has routinely trumped national interest, Americans want something else. Something higher.

Whether Obama can deliver that something else is a fair question. But the thing is, he recognizes and responds to the hunger for it. That's the reason Clinton can't lay a glove on him, the reason he's won 10 primaries in a row, the reason he's cracked her coalition and even inspired Republicans to switch parties.

Clinton and others seem to think all those people have been scammed, flim-flammed and razzle-dazzled. It's a condescending conclusion.

I suspect that if anybody bothered to ask them, they'd say that what they've been, at last, is heard.




http://www.miamiherald.com/851/story/429279.html

[Levgreee]

1. sounds good to me... funny for people to think so many millions would be fooled

It's largely not about Obama, but that's what the critics and 'spectators' see.

[flor de jasmim]

2. Exactly - it's not about Obama, but...

as for millions being fooled, remember the recent Republican conventions? It IS possible to fool millions--the big difference is that this is a participatory movement. We are all challenged to do better, take part, fight for our rights--since when was that a cult?

[Big Blue Marble]

3. Someone needs to say this again and again.

If his message goes over your head, you miss what his supporters are saying. We like the change
of tone that his message brings to politics. We are smart. We get it. We were had before under
the old politics.

Obama's message is that we can do politics differently. We can be empowered to bring change that
is needed. We are better than our politicians have said we were and we know it.

It just took someone to come along and tell us.