This campaign is about YOU, right?

[lwcon]

So, what would you ask Obama to change in order to...

1. Assure that he beats McCain
2. Govern well (e.g., how he can gain a mandate to push through a progressive agenda)?

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[stray cat]

1. Actually I want to know how he is going to handle the national debt

[lwcon]

2. That's a good topic for him

There has been almost zero talk in the media about Bush's massive deficit and how unfavorably it compares to the previous administration's ability to balance budgets.

A friend of mine has a good line. When Repubs complain about "tax-and-spend Democrats," he says "so, you prefer borrow-and-spend Republicans?"

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[stray cat]

3. I hadn't thought of it that way - it is a really good topic to hit hard

[lwcon]

7. The good news is...

Obama is now more inclined to celebrate the advantages of the Clinton years over the Bush years before and since.

With Bill and Hillary firmly lined up behind him, he can do this without chagrin, and it's stronger than just saying that this decade is worse than the 90s without saying why the 90s were better.

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[ulysses]

4. not so much change as do.

1. Create at least the framework of a plan to thoroughly overhaul NCLB in a way that preserves/creates accountability at ALL levels but rids the system of the poison of high-stakes testing.

2. See #1.

[lwcon]

5. Oooh, wonky goodness!

This blogger...

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/12/174920/170/336/596637

Sees Obama focusing more on wonky issues but that progressive bloggers/commenters aren't promoting that side of his campaign.

Personally, I'm far from a fan of Obama's, but I fucking hate John McCain and hope to see Obama run a more effective and more progressive campaign (to me that's a redundancy, though others think it's a contradiction in terms) that will both energize his base (including the likes of yours truly) and will give him a mandate to restore the Constitution and the economy, to back off the hawkish stances without living in fear of being called "soft on terror," bring us out of the stone age on health insurance, and invest in alternative energy as if life depended on it ('cause it does).

Whatever reason one wants to choose on why this presumed cakewalk has turned into a horse race, that development may represent an opportunity to persuade Obama to focus on building his party's brand by advocating a proud and distinctly Democratic agenda, instead of the accommodating post-partisan spiel that frustrated some of us and worries us about how much real "change" we can expect from him.

So, I do hope more Dems will take Obama at his word about this campaign being about us, and not him, and speak up about where he can do better.

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[ulysses]

6. wonk, wonk, wonk.

I'd just like issues to actually mean something again. Silly that way, I guess.

[lwcon]

8. You wacky wonk, you!

I'm silly that way, too.

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