Daily Archives: January 8, 2008

David Brooks has another good commentary in this mornings New York Times on the similarities and differences between Obama and McCain:

But they are very different men. Their policies obviously conflict, but their skills, world views and moral philosophies set them apart, too. One man celebrates communitarian virtues like unity, the other classical virtues like honor.

McCain and Obama – New York Times.

After reading the article I had a really crazy thought. If we are so set on change in our country could it be time to have an Obama/McCain ticket? Both would build on each other’s strengths and balance each other’s weaknesses.

Yeah, I know it’s a fairly dumb and unrealistic idea, but the through did cross my mind.

“I’m betting on you,” Obama told a rapturous audience in Derry on Sunday afternoon. “I don’t believe change comes from the top down. It comes from the bottom up.” Change will come “if you believe,” Obama declares.

“When you’ve got a working majority behind you,” he says at another point, “you can’t be stopped.” Transformation is not about policy details but about altering the political and social calculus. Obama presents himself, in one of Karl Rove’s favorite phrases, as a game-changer.

E. J. Dionne Jr. – A Candidacy’s Prose and Cons – washingtonpost.com.