Here is an on the ground blogger in NH with a very nice set of two 1.5 minute clips discussing the nature of change. I teach a class on change from time to time, so I am intimately aware of strategically vague it can be as a term.
Two video clips
My take:
Obama is trying to argue for change based on a big tent coalition. He wants to change the tone of politics and policy in a positive (Hopeful) way to make policy happen. From Hope, policy.
Edwards is trying to argue for change based on an unflinching awareness of the stakes. He makes economics a moral issue, just as the Rs framed economics in moral terms 30 years ago by linking their neoliberal economics to the rhetoric of liberty. From Righteous Ire, policy.
Which will win? Which will actually produce results? Those are the $20,000 questions for a population, teetering in recession, that can hardly afford to pay for the wrong answer.
i don't know either, which is probably why I jokingly say I am for "Obedwards." Its not a come-on.
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