Not a terribly momentous article--I just found the title amusing. Those electrifying words don't seem to add up to much, do they?
Richmond, Virginia/Washington: White House hopeful Barack Obama revelled in a trio of staggering wins over Hillary Clinton as he raised the roof at a Democratic dinner late Saturday with his speech.
"We won north, we won south and we won in between," Obama told a roaring crowd, referring to his victories over Clinton in Washington state, Louisiana and Nebraska.
"The Democratic Party must stand for change, not change as a slogan, change we can believe in. That is what this campaign it all about," he told some 6,000 people packed into a university sports hall for the Jefferson-Jackson dinner.
So what's going to actually change? Let's have some details.
To deafening cheers Obama, 46, hammered home to party activists that he was the candidate of change, as he laid claim to the Democratic Party's nomination and down the track the presidency.
"The Republicans in Washington are already running on the politics of yesterday, which is why your party must be the party of tomorrow and that is the party I intend to lead as president of the United States of America," he said.
He's annoying in his own way, isn't he? Not the annoyance of yesterday, but the annoyance of tomorrow . . .
Moving beyond the bitter tussle with Clinton for the Democratic Party's nomination for the November elections, Obama projected himself as the most electable candidate.
And he pledged that "arm in arm ... we are going to remake this country block by block, neighbourhood by neighbourhood, county by county, state by state.
Do you want somebody to "remake" your neighborhood? And if you did, would it be him?
"Virginia, this is our moment, this is our time," he said, referring to the state's nominating contests tomorrow. [...]
That's two posts in a row about empty blather.
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