"What Halperin also misses here is that in any contest between Obama and McCain, Obama is the substantive, policy-oriented candidate, while McCain is the one offering mostly pious bromides about victory, service and being American. If style often beats substance, Obama is in trouble because, as his supporters tirelessly remind us, Obama does have a substantive policy agenda (even if he doesn’t spend as much time talking about it and a lot of his boosters don’t care what it is) and McCain’s entire campaign has been even more driven by biography and character than Obama’s."
June 7, 2008
Obama more substantive than McCain?
At least one writer for the American Conservative thinks so:
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Interesting considering the outset of Obama's campaign because Obama was the one lacking substance. Various words used to describe him were vacuous, nebulous, vague, cheap suit, "sound and fury"...
Maybe this is why I like him so much.
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