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Friday, August 22, 2008 12:00 AM

How Obama can be the un-Kerry in Denver

Three veteran Democrats game out the Democratic and Republican conventions. Beware of PUMAs!

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  • Friday, August 22, 2008 05:08 PM

    Great minds gather

    to come up with extraordinary cogitations like:

    "I always think of policy in political campaigns as the reality check, which makes the rhetoric and the good messaging real. And I think the importance of policy is really to bolster and make credible the kind of themes that I think Chris was talking about in terms of what you want to do at your convention. In other words, if you are simply up there saying repeatedly, "Universal healthcare," but you've never had a plan, you can say it until you're blue in the face, and you can have every Madison Avenue genius in the world making ads about it but if there's never been a plan put out there that people who know something about the issue say is somewhat credible, then your messaging is going to be undercut because you have an advertisement without a product." (Emphasis and bolding added, idiocy belongs to author)

    Does it actually need pointing out how brainless these people are? Doesn't reading the above make your eyes ache and your brain suffer wrack and ruin? Tears. I shed tears at the sheer vacuity of every word.

    What is this thing, this Schaller-led expert panel? And is it possible to stop it?

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