Ryan Lizza, The New Yorker
The reviews of Barack Obama’s speech to the Democratic National Convention are lukewarm, and I think I know why. There was an odd mismatch between Obama’s claim about the enormous stakes of this election and his own preview of what he would do if reëlected. The political cliché of this election is that Obama wants the campaign to be a choice between two competing visions for the country, while Romney wants it to be a simple referendum on Obama’s tenure in office. Here’s how Obama framed what’s at stake:
The reviews of Barack Obama’s speech to the Democratic National Convention are lukewarm, and I think I know why. There was an odd mismatch between Obama’s claim about the enormous stakes of this election and his own preview of what he would do if reëlected. The political cliché of this election is that Obama wants the campaign to be a choice between two competing visions for the country, while Romney wants it to be a simple referendum on Obama’s tenure in office. Here’s how Obama framed what’s at stake:
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