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If Clinton wants to win the nomination and the general, she needs to drop the penny-ante negative attacks on Obama's great speeches. Because she needs to make a great speech herself.
The speech will have to be a humdinger, because it needs to start from a place of humility, move to inclusiveness, and end with a lofty vision of the future that all Americans can share.
The greatest mistake of the Clinton campaign, greater even then its tactical decisions to divide the Democratic electorate, is its decision to bad mouth "a little town called hope." Even in the gentler 90's, voters firmly rejected a candidate that sneered at the "vision thing." After eight years of rudderless cynicism, Americans want to elect someone who will climb to the lookout to chart a new course.
Clinton has to give up the Powerpoint bullet lists. She has to make it clear she represents ALL Americans. Most of all, she has to finally tell us where the hell she wants to lead us.
