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The Wheat and the Wind
Jay Nordlinger breezes once more into a splendid point:
I don’t think Barack Obama needed to have a big, jazzy closing night — the “O-cropolis,” the fireworks, the bells and whistles. Why? Because he has enough jazz and sex — enough pizzazz and charisma — on his own. Some people think he has too much.Now, that is very true. And may I offer a gentle reminder to our readers—a reminder of how John F. Kennedy, the president most thoroughly hailed at each Democrat convention, the candidate thought to be most brilliant, was elected:
Consider Ronald Reagan, in 1980. He was regarded as a Hollywood guy, and the rap against him was that he was all style, no substance — just a bunch of Tinseltown glitz. So his ads were very, very plain: They had Reagan speaking straight into the camera, about some issue — some kitchen-table issue. No music, no Hollywood. Very, very effective.
Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy? Now tell me into the back of your mind did not drift: O-ba-ma, O-ba-ma, O-ba-ma.
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