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One of the big mysteries of this primary season for me has been how the canard that Obama does not have much substance has been able to sustain itself.
Obama is a constitutional law professor, considered by everyone to be stunningly intelligent and charismatic. His program is as detailed as Hillary's and he never - as far as I know - has been caught not knowing something about an issue.
Sure, his rhetorical emphasis is more on broader themes and he is hurt by running against Clinton who is a master of the minutae. But when McCain who has barely released anything concrete about his plans takes the meme over and pounds on the substance issue, and journalists who have been following this campaign for 18 months, saw him campaign in IA where candidates are asked about the most obscure of issues, read every release and plan and speech he made, repeat it, I have to wonder why the idea sipped in so easily in the zeitgeist.
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