ABC News: Obama: ‘Old Politics Just Won’t Do’

“The way to win a debate with John McCain is not by nominating someone who agreed with him on voting for the war in Iraq, who agreed with him in voting to give George Bush the benefit of the doubt on Iran, who agrees with him in embracing the Bush-Cheney policy of not talking to leaders we don’t like, and who actually differed with him by arguing for exceptions for torture before changing positions when the politics of the moment changed,” Obama said. …

In his speech, Obama argued against the politics of divide and conquer, without pointing the finger directly at the Clintons. [mjh: The following points a finger at Rove, not the Clintons.]

“We’ve faced forces that are not the fault of any one campaign — forces that open American wounds,” Obama said. “The politics that uses religion as a wedge, and patriotism as a bludgeon. A politics that tells us what we have to think and even vote within the confines of the categories that supposedly define us.”

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/Story?id=4215588&page=2

I’m especially tired of George Stephanopolus spinning things Clinton’s way while masquerading as a ‘journalist.’ He was Clinton’s communications guy — and it seems he still is. Read this speech. mjh

Transcript of Obama’s Speech Wednesday in Denver, Colorado
The Past Versus the Future, January 30th, 2008