Monday, January 28, 2008

In His Own Words (or Those of His Speechwriters)

After giving Hillary (and Bill) a good ol'-fashioned butt-kicking South Carolina, Obama seems to have refined and pinpointed his message into one that says "Back off, Bubba" and/or "You're either with us or against us." Either way, it's a winning framework:

“The choice in this election is not between regions or religions or genders. It’s not about rich versus poor; young versus old; and it is not about black versus white. It’s about the past versus the future.”