As Jennifer Rubin says: Barry’s rhetoric, especially from one so young and untried, is pretty bizarre:
“I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless…"
The Dems are stuck in the 1930s. It’s what they do, however goofy it sounds in 2008. But, after more than forty years of Medicare and Medicaid and unemployment insurance, not to mention an economy that even high oil prices cannot drive into a recession, this kind of talk is strictly for the Dem faithful and the clueless among the rest–especially the uneducated young.
UPDATE: Cobb, too, saw the speech (well, part of it) and concludes that Barry is an empty suit. Me, I get my opinions from these guys. I would not waste a minute listening to Barry. The Seablogger links to this American Thinker piece that reminds us– despite Barry’s faithful cheerleaders of the MSM–that it ain’t over until August in Denver. Unless Hilarity concedes and, despite the pressure, she hasn’t. These superdelegates, who can change their minds right up til August, sound like something on the order of the Supreme Soviet. You know, the non-democratic backroom guys who hold the real power.
MORE: Then, three days later, on 7 June, she withdrew. Surprising to me, and hard to believe, but there it is.
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