Jim Geraghty’s take is pretty good–you can find it here.
Morissey’s reaction is here.
The more I reflect on it, the more I think this wasn’t even a “speech” at all, but a partisan pep talk with a few appeals to “good sportsmanship” thrown in.
Obama tossed out some tired and silly lines: McCain will give us four more years of Bush; the Bush Administration stood by as New Orleans drowned; Iraq took our eyes off Afghanistan.
Other than the smattering of “good sportsmanship” lines, the rest of the pep talk was the Dems’ traditional appeal to class warfare and protectionism.
If this historic moment (which it was, by any measure, because for the first time a minority accepted a major party’s nomination for president) had any connection with the 1960s, it was not because it coincided with the anniversary of MLK’s “I have a dream” speech, but because the Democratic Party sees in Obama a chance to restore the political atmosphere of that earlier era.
The question is, will Americans want a return to the Big Government Liberalism of yesteryear?
