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"Why was Friday a game changer? Because we're tired of personal and public drama. We're tired of Clinton family dramas, we're tired of breathless, paralyzing fear the robs of us our ability to assess. We're tired of lurching from one crisis to another. McCain is a Walking Crisis. McCain is more dangerous than Bush. McCain doesn't think, doesn't care about the people, our status in the world, and only has military solutions to every foreign policy problem. He personalizes every policy position. Everything is an out-an-out fight as if it's an assault on his very being. These are the reasoning skills of a self-absorbed eight year old. The world is not a playground, Sen. McCain. It is you who does not "understand" the realities of the world.
We're sick of it. Those of us less engaged are sick of it, too, maybe even more so. They just didn't know what the alternative was; if they could trust that uppity, dangerous black guy, for whom the narrative was begun and hammered by Hillary and taken up by McCain.
This past week, culminating in Friday's debate, was a breath of fresh, steady, intelligent air. That we can think as a nation, that our President can lead without personal puffery. That the welfare of the American people can be served instead of exploited.
I've been calling it comfort level since Friday. But there's more to it than that: we can finally relax, we can trust. We'd forgotten what grown up leadership looks like. Even though we liked the exuberance of the Clinton administration, we haven't been guided by steady hands in decades. Even on the left when some of my favorite left wing radio hosts sneer at Obama for having the likes of Robert Rubin as an advisor, they ignore the fact that Obama also has his left wing advisors as well. He will include all voices to find the best answer to any problem. The best answer, not just his answer. Obama is comfortable enough in his own being to embrace the fact that solutions are bigger than he is. It's true leadership.
Anyone 35 or under doesn't even know what that kind of leadership looks like. Anyone older has forgotten.
The events of the past week culminating in Friday's debate brought that back.
So the McCain campaign can have at it with distractions, lies, ugliness, fear, stunts. That's how we got in every mess we're in now. That's all that the Obama campaign needs to say from here on out.
Change is no longer just a slogan. We know what it looks like. It's calm, thoughtful, compassionate, intelligent leadership and policies with our welfare at its core. It's leadership we can trust.
We knew we were yearning for something different. We just didn't know what it was. Now we do. "