It was a great speech and he is a great speaker. Unfortunately that is his main qualification. In this day and age of media soundbites and 24 hour news this might be enough. An example of this is he could of diffused this situation last week but his comments after his pastor's sermons came to light were elusive at best. It took him and I can only assume his speech writers and advisors a week to come up with something that explained his views. That's not exactly leadership and honesty but "coveringyourassity"
I'm not sure who said this, think it was the NY Times but it hits it spot on.
'The troubling part is that the Obama campaign has become about how great the Obama campaign is.'
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