Saturday, April 19, 2008
Quick notes
Quick notes from the brief campaign speeches aired on CNN.
Hillary:
1. Eliminate tax benefits for outsourcing.
2. Eliminate tax benefits for hedge-fund managers etc
3. Renegotiate NAFTA.
4. Reward work. "People must feel that their work is leading somewhere"
5. Re-emphasize manufacturing. (YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYY!)
6. Manhattan project for 'clean energy'
Obama:
1. Let's talk about substance instead of words.
2. Change
3. Hope
4. Let's talk about substance instead of words.
5. Change
6. Hope
McCain:
1. Zero zip nada taxes.
2. Zero zip nada taxes.
3. Zero zip nada taxes.
4. Zero zip nada taxes.
5. Zero zip nada taxes.
6. Zero zip nada taxes.
The most dramatic difference:
Hillary is the only one who defines specific problems and offers specific solutions.
And I agree with the importance of the problems and the general direction of the solutions. (I disagree strongly with her on education, but that's secondary at this point in history.)
Obama isn't saying anything that you could agree or disagree with. In other words, while he's advocating a new form of politics, he's practicing the oldest kind of empty-rhetoric politics.
McCain is speaking directly to Warren Buffett and Britney Spears. Fine for them, I suppose, but lethal for the rest of us. ¶ 1:36 PM
Hillary:
1. Eliminate tax benefits for outsourcing.
2. Eliminate tax benefits for hedge-fund managers etc
3. Renegotiate NAFTA.
4. Reward work. "People must feel that their work is leading somewhere"
5. Re-emphasize manufacturing. (YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYY!)
6. Manhattan project for 'clean energy'
Obama:
1. Let's talk about substance instead of words.
2. Change
3. Hope
4. Let's talk about substance instead of words.
5. Change
6. Hope
McCain:
1. Zero zip nada taxes.
2. Zero zip nada taxes.
3. Zero zip nada taxes.
4. Zero zip nada taxes.
5. Zero zip nada taxes.
6. Zero zip nada taxes.
The most dramatic difference:
Hillary is the only one who defines specific problems and offers specific solutions.
And I agree with the importance of the problems and the general direction of the solutions. (I disagree strongly with her on education, but that's secondary at this point in history.)
Obama isn't saying anything that you could agree or disagree with. In other words, while he's advocating a new form of politics, he's practicing the oldest kind of empty-rhetoric politics.
McCain is speaking directly to Warren Buffett and Britney Spears. Fine for them, I suppose, but lethal for the rest of us. ¶ 1:36 PM
