Speeches or solutions? I take speeches.

Kim Geiger — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 03:52:52 +0000

In the wake of the 2004 election, Slate’s Chris Suellentrop said it best: “Vision without details beats details without vision.”

Despite her decades of political experience and staff of campaign experts, Hillary Clinton doesn’t seem to get this.

In a speech to Ohioans yesterday, Clinton referred to herself as, “someone who’s not just in the speeches business – but will get America back in the solutions business.”
But what about the winning elections business?

Barack Obama is the candidate Democrats were wishing they had in October of 2004: A person who can deliver the Democratic message without sounding more like a college professor than a leader. A candidate whose speeches are so compelling that they can distract from the Republican chest pounding, tough on terror, “I will protect you,” message.

Huckabee “not smart enough”

Kim Geiger — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 03:30:48 +0000

Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee appeared in an interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN Saturday afternoon. Blitzer asked Republican candidate Mike Huckabee, who trails John McCain by an insurmountable margin of pledged delegates, if his strategy at this point is simply to prevent McCain from getting the delegate majority he needs to become the official nominee. Doing so would force the party to chose the nominee at this summer’s convention and could theoretically give Huckabee a second shot at winning the nomination.

Huckabee’s answer: “Wolf, we’re not smart enough to think that far down the road.” Now that sounds like a page out of the Iraq war playbook.

Kim Geiger

The California News Service » election

Speeches or solutions? I take speeches.

Huckabee “not smart enough”