Everybody looks unelectable until they win.
for saying during the campaign that she was proud of the U.S. “for the first time in my adult life.
Some pundits adorned Obama with the largest and most putrid albatross corpse that can be hung around the neck of a Democratic candidate: comparison to George McGovern, the liberal antiwar candidate who lost a 1972 landslide to Richard Nixon.
In the end, Obama didn’t win Missouri, but he did win Pennsylvania—and Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin, and the election as a whole. He spun the question of his electability into one that raised the inspiring possibilities that could be achieved through voters’ collective power. “If you believe I can be the next president of the United States, it can happen,” the Washington Post quoted him as telling a crowd in Webster City, Iowa, on Dec. 27, 2007.
Obama used the criticisms of his approach as rhetorical foils. Ten days after announcing that he was forming a presidential exploratory committee, he framed acalling for the extension of health coverage to every American as a response to pundits and politicians who said such an effort would be too “risky” or “expensive” or who wanted to “tinker at the margins” of the problem.
So perhaps this time it will be someone responding to Obama himself who delivers the message with which the once-aspiring candidateto critics who told his supporters to “pause for a reality check” or said that his ambitious candidacy was creating “false hope.” Said that version of Obama: “In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.
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