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• LorenzoJennifer said:

  Barack Obama runs the risk of creating a chasm between his rhetoric and his now more specific policies as representing the "hope" and "change" which has defined his campaign.  He invested several months in calling for "change" without getting all that specific.  What happened is that many in the audience began to imagine what kind of changes would be coming in an Obama administration.  Many crafted their own personal desires of what should be done and projected them onto Obama.  His acceptance speech may be interpreted as a call more for adjustments, alterations and innovations within the existing system than for the wholesale changes many of his followers had come to expect.  While not necessarily thinking outside the box, he nonetheless creatively expanded the dimensions of the box.

  September 2, 2008 1:42 AM

• gordon marshall said:

  Barack Obama is nothing more and nothing less than a great man who can think critically and compassionately about domestic and world affairs--unless you include the nerve that got him the Democratic nomination against prohibitive odds; and will continue to get him and us moral and ethical victories as he defeats McCain and becomes the great reformer that Joe Lieberman says we need, rising above party differences in a way, ironically, that Lieberman's own candidate wants to but can't.

  September 2, 2008 11:23 PM

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