Obama makes subdued plea on eve of caucuses
DES MOINES -- Iowa voters have no doubt had their fill of candidates' TV ads -- as we write this, a commercial break on the local NBC affiliate had four commercials, all political: an ad for Hillary Clinton, two for Joe Biden, and one from a 527 group on behalf of John Edwards.
But Barack Obama, like Clinton and Edwards, is airing one final spot during the news tonight. The ad is a subdued two-minute plea for caucus-goers.
"You've heard from all of us, and read our plans," Obama says. "You've been bombarded with mailings and phone calls, and you'll be glad to know this is one of the last times you'll hear me say, 'I'm Barack Obama, and I approve this message.'"
He continues, "But the question you have to ask yourself when you walk into that caucus tomorrow is this – who can take us in a fundamentally new direction? I'm running to finally solve problems we talk about year after year after year. To end the division, the obscene influence of lobbyists, and the politics that values scoring points over making progress. We can't afford more of that, not this year, not now."
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Iowa and New Hampshire -- it is time to write some history.
Your choice:
1. Hillary Rodham Clinton won the electoral college but lost
the popular vote by a larger margin than at any time in the nation's
history. Her cabinet consisted of many reappointments from her
husband's second term, just as George W. Bush reused many of the same
people who had served in his father's administration. Though
experienced, their outdated world view caused them to make
many of the same mistakes that Bush-Cheney made. Just as Iraqi Freedom
was a failed reprise of the Gulf War, Hillary Clinton's reinstatement
of earlier Clinton economic policies merely exacerbated the Greenspan
legacy of economic demise. In 2010, the House
and Senate were returned to the Republicans in a landslide, and by
2012, the one term presidency was a disappointment. A later line of
great woman presidents was actually delayed by the Hillary Clinton
election.
2. Barack Hussein Obama's presidency delivered on many of the
promises that had made the Kennedy candidacies so exciting. Like
Bobby Kennedy, but with greater national unity, Obama was able to bring
ethics, fairness, efficiency, and compassion to the Great Society. Like Jack
Kennedy, but without the personal distractions, he was able to
inspire great national achievement, bringing optimism and security
to uncertain times in measured steps. His cabinet was even better and
brighter, as the more judicious Obama (three years older than JFK
at inauguration) was able to avoid unnecessary regional conflicts.
During each Obama term, the Congressional Democratic majority
grew, and Obama was able to reverse the trend of conservative appointments
to the Supreme Court. Although technically this was a landmark
presidency for many demographic reasons, it was even more importantly
the greatest Democratic presidency since Roosevelt, and ranks among
the most effective and popular presidencies of all time.