FINALLY
Remember the Anchorage mayoral election of the mid-'80s that brought in Tom Fink? Okay, I wasn't here at the time, but I've heard about it. The loser, Dave Walsh, tried to set realistic (low) expectations of the economy after the oil bust, while Fink waxed ebullient. Fink played to voters' hopes, and the rest is history.
Comes now Bill Clinton to summarize and contrast Kerry's and Bush's positions. NPR played it this morning. Portraying Kerry as the candidate of hope and Bush as the fearmonger is the best move I can think of at this point, and it might just work.
posted by Undersecretary to the Deputy Commissariat at 1:09 PM
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I heard it this morning too. Very moving, our fallen hero, back from the brink to set the stage for victory.
The whole thing made me just think that they probably scheduled Clinton's heart surgery to cooincide with just this kind of comeback, but they would have done that would they?
A quote from his speech:
"Now, one of Clinton's laws of politics is this, if one candidate's trying to scare you, and the other one is trying to get you to think, if one candidate is appealing to your fears and the other one is appealing to your hopes, you better vote for the person who wants you to think and hope."
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