Via reddit, I just read this story.

Sometimes, it's really amazing how the world works...

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George Will on Obama's candidacy today:

McCain's problem might turn out to be the fact that Obama is the Democrats' Reagan. Obama's rhetorical cotton candy lacks Reagan's ideological nourishment, but he is Reaganesque in two important senses: People like listening to him, and his manner lulls his adversaries into underestimating his sheer toughness - the tempered steel beneath the sleek suits.

I think Will misses the way Obama is re-shaping the political conversation with his inspirational and often-times vague sounding pronouncements.  (Would Will call the Gettysburg Address "rhetorical cotton candy"?)  But he senses Obama's toughness in a way that others - for example, Maureen Dowd - does not.

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And Ms. Clinton has apparently launched her strategy for the coming weeks - claiming Obama can't win.  So far today, her campaign has said:

• White people support her.
• Democrats can't win with just "eggheads and African-Americans."
• Obama is a "sure loser."

Coming up next (or again):

• Can't win without old people.
• Obama is a girlie man.

If Mr. Koch was speaking out of turn - as opposed to as part of her plan - than it could be plausibly said that she is still trying to get the Vice Presidential slot.

Tags: George F. Will

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