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• Thursday, September 4, 2008 08:43 AM

  @Xanthro--I agree and disagree

  I don't think she did as well as you think she did last night, but she did very well, and I may be wrong. I have worked in community service and I felt denegrated and insulted. She also made me want to get in her face and defend Obama, in part because he's been a good guy through all of this. But I wasn't the target demo.

  My thing is, no matter how good she speaks, she can't win. By doing a 180 spin and plastering "Change" all over everything all of a sudden, the McCain campain is ceding turf to Obama. Let me repeat myself: The McCain camp is saying that Obama is right. The entire Republican party is marching to Barack Obama's beat right now. Union shout outs? Clinton applause lines? An appeal to the working class? What the heck kind of conservative convention is this anyway? The McCain campaign has just publicly admitted that the only way it can possibly win is by turning into the Obama campaign. Obama did it first and better. All he has to do is come out and say it. Something like this:

  "So, the McCain campaign said yesterday that they're the party of..." (smile) "...change. To that I say, welcome aboard." (laugh). "The Republican Party has finally joined the movement we've been trying to share all these years. I'm glad they want to participate in my vision for the future. John, Sarah, thanks for your support."

  —Effie Perine Read Effie Perine's other letters
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