He stressed the importance of community. “Being a member of a community is understanding the stake that each of us has in the others,” Patrick said. “Unless we repair that sense of community as a nation no one’s good ideas have a chance,” he added.
“Visionary leadership is about being able to articulate a destination and then motivate people to reach that destination. It is the ability to be transcendent. That is what Obama is able to do,” he said.
He took direct aim at the corporate media. “The pollsters and the pundits and the wise guys are telling us we can’t have what we want,” he said. Don’t listen to them, he advised. Vote for what you want.
The saddest moment in the debate last night, he said, was when Senator Clinton spoke about, “raising false hopes.”
“We must have our expectations raised. We are starving to have our expectations raised. No one is asking you to take a chance on a candidate. Take a chance on your own aspirations. Then go and work for it,” our Governor said.
“I am supporting him because he has asked me to put my hope on the line. I am asking you to put your hope on the line. If you do, I think he can win and we can win, Patrick said.
Finally, with respect to “experience,” he had this to say: “You can hire experience. What you need is judgment. Nobody running for President now has been President before.”
Obama, he said, “Is the right man for right now.”
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why Deval Patrick won the election for Governor of Massachusetts and why Barack Obama won the Democratic primary caucuses in Iowa.
That’s a typo, I assume — but kind of a revealing one, no? đŸ˜‰
David Axelrod who won MA in 2006 and Iowa in 2007?
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p>Sadly and regretably, I cannot share Bob’s enthusiasm about our Governor’s skills. Undeniably, however are his superior skills as a candidate. He seems to have found his calling again….campaigning. The crack toward Senator Clinton was unnecessary, especially given the Governor’s relationship with the Clintons. Shouldn’t the good Governor have learned some humility from his own lack of progress on his agenda, with a democratic majority legislature? Shall we be fooled again into thinking a wand will miracuously be waved over Congress and they will get to work when a Democratic president is elected? It’s going to take a work horse whose passion is bred from the deepest well and greatest teacher of humanity – pain… and a miracle to turn the destruction around. They say, insanity is doing the same thing over expecting different results.
It is entirely possible that Kerry Healey would be our Governor right now had Patrick not won the nomination.
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p>As to Clinton, did she or did she not pass off that line? And was it, or was it not, a downer?
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p>As to my typo, fixed. As to whether it was a revealing one or not, I guess you can discuss that with the chap in the Salem church basement đŸ˜‰
I didn’t mean that you can’t tell Obama and Patrick apart! What I was actually thinking was that, in a sense, Deval Patrick did win Iowa. Obama’s message in Iowa is pretty much exactly the one Patrick used to such powerful effect here — I (and anyone else who watched the Deval campaign) am repeatedly struck by how similar Obama’s rhetoric is to Patrick’s. The Patrick campaign was, in a sense, a dry run for Obama’s. It worked out brilliantly for David Axelrod, no? He got to try his “hope” strategy in the relatively safe environment of MA, saw how it worked, maybe tweaked it here and there, and then took it national with Obama.
I am skeptical of Obama’s audacity of hope spiel, particularly if, as David hints above, this message may be part of an already tested campaign strategy. I confess to not having followed the Patrick campaign at all because I don’t live in MA, but it sounds entirely plausible that Axelrod got a two-fer (two clients – one strategy). Assuming that the campaign strategies were similar, I have a question for those who supported Patrick: Has Patrick delivered effectively on his campaign promises? Were you, too, wooed and won over by Patrick? If Patrick rose your expectations (not too difficult, I suppose, following Romney, and likewise, wouldn’t be too difficult following Bush), has he met them? If Patrick’s lackluster performance is any indication, I think a reality check may be in order for Obama’s agent-of-change image.
Unfortunately, the election of a black president here in the United States will not undo four or five centuries of deeply-ingrained racism here in this country. However, the fact that a black man can run for president and get as far as Obama has gotten is, in itself, a measure of progress.
…we are supposed to be impressed by one politician (Patrick) who hasn’t yet accomplished anything introducing another politician (Obama) who also hasn’t yet accomplished anything.
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p>What I get from that is that together we can…accomplish nothing. Good slogan.