He’s everywhere in the news today, including Nevada. I’ve got a tech meeting
this morning, then I’m planning to hit Obama’s stump gig, so you likely won’t
be hearing from me until early this afternoon. It may be Friday, but it’s busy
’round here.
Andrew Sullivan is convinced
about he’s something very special.
Karen Tumulty has more:
It may not be all that unusual for a Democrat to castigate automakers in
an environmental speech. But when Obama did the castigating, it was in front
of the Detroit Economic Club. Nor did he help his chances of winning the endorsements
of the city’s big unions by asserting that any aid Washington gives the automakers
for their soaring health-care costs should be tied to improving fuel efficiency.“We anticipated that there weren’t necessarily going to be a lot of
applause lines in that speech. It was sort of an eat-your-spinach approach,”
Obama conceded when I asked him about the stony silence that greeted his address.
“But one thing I did say to people was that I wasn’t going to make an
environmental speech in California and then make a different speech in Detroit.”That kind of conspicuous candor has been part of Obama’s campaign since his
announcement tour in February. When a questioner at a rally in Cedar Rapids,
Iowa, wanted to know whether he would cut the military budget to make room
for other priorities, Obama answered, “Actually, you’ll probably see
an initial bump in military spending in an Obama Administration” to replace
the equipment that has been depleted by the Iraq war and build up the size
of the active forces. When a teacher asked him about the No Child Left Behind
law that is so unpopular with educators and their unions, Obama agreed that
it “left the money behind.” But while he endorsed higher pay for
teachers, Obama also talked about “the things that were good about No
Child Left Behind,” including more accountability. By then, his listeners
were shifting in their chairs. … ..
But if you want the real story, well, wait until you read this
one.
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