I know, don't shoot the messenger because of the author, but that's what makes this even more remarkable!
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/06/mccain_needs_vision_to_beat_hi.htmlMcCain Needs ‘Vision’ to Beat Historic Odds Favoring Obama in ’08
By Mort Kondracke
A new scholarly analysis confirms that Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) has to perform miracles to win the 2008 election. So far, he is far short of doing that.
McCain’s speech in Louisiana Tuesday night fell embarrassingly short of matching Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-Ill.) eloquence, vision and delivery — demonstrating the distance McCain has to go to have a chance of winning in November.
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McCain has nothing to match Obama’s promise to “invest in our crumbling infrastructure” and in human capital — early childhood education, the public schools, college education and scientific research.
To the contrary, McCain plans to curtail “wasteful spending” and freeze all government programs at current levels until he sorts out which work. “Public investment” is not in his vocabulary.
Obama’s vision may well represent a throwback to 1960s liberalism, but the country’s attitude toward government often cycles from “big” to “small” and back again.
During Bush’s claimed “small government” years, median income has fallen, the ranks of the uninsured have swelled, debt has mounted and prices have soared.
Voters clearly want “change.” McCain has a long way to go to convince them that his kind is better than Obama’s, even though — on the merits — it may well be.
At the rate things are going, history will repeat itself with a Democratic victory in 2008 and liberal domination of the government until voters change their minds again.