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Thursday, August 28, 2008 12:00 AM

What's missing from the Democratic convention?

Democrats have largely avoided discussions of the radicalism of the past eight years, and even more so personal attacks on John McCain. Is that wise?
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  • Thursday, August 28, 2008 01:31 PM

    Derbig

    "In order to have the right to condemn the Bush years, the Democrats needed to have presented, and forcefully, another side of the story. And they didn't."

    That's exactly what I've been thinking.

    Harry Reid's speech about the "snake oil" that is off-shore drilling struck me. It's one of the few things he actually could speak about, because it's one of the few things he hasn't handed to Bush on a silver platter...well, yet.

    The few members of Congress who could speak about "the sheer radicalism and extremism of the last eight years" don't seem to be on the agenda.

    —EJ Read EJ's other letters

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