[Deckard]

Originally Posted by Sean

So glad to hear you say that. Yesterday, I read completely contrasting articles like this:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/art..._terrible.html

and this:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7863e71a-6...nclick_check=1

I tend to think there's some truth to both stances, but I don't know what that truth might be yet....

I just don't know either. There was a piece by Gorbachev in the Washington Post a few days ago. Sounded convincing to me, but then how can I take the word of a former president as unbiased?!

Anyway, back on topic, did anyone hear about these original memo's from the Clinton campaign being leaked to Atlantic.com recently? You can see the whole list here. Quite a scoop.

This one's particularly insightful, written by her chief strategist Mark Penn. Essentially it shows how it was an explicit part of Hillary's strategy to target the idea that Obama is basically a foreigner.

All of these articles about his boyhood in Indonesia and his life in Hawaii are geared towards showing his background is diverse, multicultural and putting that in a new light.

Save it for 2050.

It also exposes a very strong weakness for him—his roots to basic American values and culture are at best limited.

I cannot imagine America electing a president during a time of war who is not at his center fundamentally American in his thinking and in his values. He told the people of NH yesterday he has a Kansas accent because his mother was from there. His mother lived in many states as far as we can tell—but this is an example of the nonsense he uses to cover this up.

How we could give some life to this contrast without turning negative:

Every speech should contain the line you were born in the middle of America to the middle class in the middle of the last century. And talk about the basic bargain as about the deeply American values you grew up with, learned as a child and that drive you today. Values of fairness, compassion, responsibility, giving back.

Let’s explicitly own ‘American’ in our programs, the speeches and the values. He doesn’t. Make this a new American Century, the American Strategic Energy Fund. Let’s use our logo to make some flags we can give out. Let’s add flag symbols to the backgrounds.

Course it's what we suspected all along, but useful to have it documented.

Another one by Penn from 2006 insists that Hillary must be "more Thatcher than anything else". Trust me, that's the last thing America (and the world) needs!