“I particularly hope he strengthens his economic message — even Senator Obama can speak more clearly and specifically about the kitchen-table, bread-and-butter issues like high energy costs,” said Gov. Ted Strickland of Ohio. “It’s fine to tell people about hope and change, but you have to have plenty of concrete, pragmatic ideas that bring hope and change to life.” Or, in the blunter words of Gov. Phil Bredesen, Democrat of Tennessee: “Instead of giving big speeches at big stadiums, he needs to give straight-up 10-word answers to people at Wal-Mart about how he would improve their lives.”
Be careful what you wish for. It’s a little late in the game for a makeover, and Barack won't look comfortable hiding his light under a bushel so he can drone on about farm policy. He'll just be prompting voters to ask themselves how a man with no previous accomplishments is going implement all his wonderful specifics.
If morphing himself into a compassionate wonk doesn't work, there's always Plan B. Ultimately, the candidate of hope and change may be forced to run a simple scorched-earth campaign portraying John McCain as an older, scarier George W. Bush.
Whatever it takes to win.
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