I'm sure all of you have been reading the articles and media coverage since the debates. It's not all been good, has it? Not that I put a whole lot of faith in the media these days, but let's face it...people do listen to what's being said and here is what I'm hearing.Barack Obama is drawing crowds, but behind in the polls. His message is starting to sound like rhetoric because he keeps saying the same thing. You have to admit that most of us have seen all of his speeches on You Tube or here on barackobama.com and not that his message needs to change, but certainly the "phraseology" needs updating. Obama is certainly an intelligent man and could probably write his own speeches for the entire campaign, but people are going to begin asking pointed questions about how exactly we're going to enact a national healthcare system without it being "socialized medicine?" How are we going to get the drug and insurance companies to buy into these ideas when they most certainly are going to cause them loss of profits? What will happen if the current HMO system is deposed and replaced by a universal system, will that not cause loss of jobs? What are the answers to these questions? They are going to have to be answered.As for the war, luckily he is still the only one that stood firm against the conflict from the beginning. As the President persists in the fatalistic view of the Middle East, Obama's views on the subject continue to be a beacon of hope. This stance is going to continue to polarize people, especially Dems, but Hillary and the rest of the bunch all agree on this point (at least on the surface). Obama is going to have to find other ways to separate himself from the crowd and prove that he is a step up from the pack. AND keep finding new ways to say it, instead of using his tried and true fallback phrases or they'll soon become the rhetoric the media is accusing him of.In the age of instant media, the person that's going to win this election is going to have to be smart, resourceful and FRESH. Barack was fresh in January, he's going to have to keep evolving to continue to be so and to win over the electorate. I for one will keep supporting him no matter what, but in order to win over the doubtful, what's the next step?
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