Obama's appeal isn't about "change"...

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Tuesday January 08, 2008 · 7:35 AM PST

2008/01/08 · 07:35

As usual, the MSM and just about everyone else has it wrong. "Change" has been the hot new theme since the Iowa caucuses. The media, the pundits, and candidates) have been jumping on the "change" message due to Obama's (and Huckabee's) success in IA. It's gotten so cliched that Willard Mitt Romney uses it without irony at this point. Same with Giuliani and McCain. It's comical, truly.

However, I don't think the core of his message is about change. What
people are really latching onto are two things:

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Thursday June 28, 2007 · 8:51 AM PDT

2007/06/28 · 08:51

This morning, Senator Pat Leahy got it right in his response to the White House's asserting of executive privilege over the USAGate subpoenas:

"This is a further shift by the Bush Administration into Nixonian stonewalling..."

This is something we need to see more of. The Nixon comparison is devastatingly effective when used against the Bush Administration. Follow me after the jump to see why...

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Obama's appeal isn't about "change"...

The power of the "Nixon" meme in 2007