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To: LTK007 who wrote (77545)	5/9/2008 12:31:46 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 89467

Camelot redux? ”Barack Obama is going to run an aura campaign. As it has been from the start, it's going to be a speech candidacy, a rhetorical candidacy, a JFK candidacy, the promise of another Camelot,” Wall Street Journal columnist Daniel Henninger writes. “Listen here to Barack describing what it's all about Monday in Indianapolis: 'I believe that this election is bigger than me or John McCain or Hillary Clinton. It's bigger than the Democrats versus Republicans. It's about who we are as Americans.' That's as big as it gets,” Mr. Henninger said. “Will more than 50 percent of voters want a piece of this dream in November? Will the Rev. Wright specter be gone by then and the 'bitter' remark forgiven? Sure. Why not? So long as the American mood sits in the dumpster, John McCain will have his hands full. The instinct of the McCain camp will be to compete for the unhappy white vote Hillary leaves behind with lurches toward Obama-like populism. That compulsion was already evident in the demagogic anti-Wall Street passages of his speech on the economy last month. “John McCain needs to find an Achilles heel in this opponent. It's there — not the Wright mess but Obama's dustup with Hillary Sunday on Iran, when he tagged her for 'saber rattling' and 'tough talk.' “Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, collector of centrifuges, makes Jeremiah Wright look like Little Bo Peep. Yet this Tuesday Barack Obama said he assumes the American people will see it is 'not weakness, but wisdom to talk not just to our friends, but our enemies, like Roosevelt did, Kennedy did, and Truman did.' In the here and now, a more apt name comes to mind: Jimmy Carter. ... “If John McCain can't talk the American people out of re-Carterizing themselves, what has he been preparing for all these years?”