How Obama Can Demonstrate Real Leadership on the Economic Crisis

By Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post. Posted September 20, 2008.

Obama needs to put himself at odds with the Dem establishment: He did
it with Iraq in 2002, and he can do it in 2008 with the economy.

Watching John McCain thundering against Wall Street greed is like
tuning into to the old Lawrence Welk show to find him doing a polka
version of a hard-core rap song ("A-one and a-two, motherfucker!").

Speaking yesterday outside an auto plant in Grand Rapids, Michigan,
McCain read his populist rhetoric -- "These workers here are the best
in the world. They are the backbone and foundation of our economy." --
with a robotic cadence dripping with inauthenticity.

Wall Street is melting down, and McCain and the GOP have no credible
response. When your erstwhile economic guru, Phil Gramm -- a man whose
1996 run for the presidency McCain chaired, and who appears to remain
influential behind-the-McCain-campaign-scenes -- is Patient Zero of
this killer economic epidemic, it's pretty hard to suddenly start
channeling Upton Sinclair.

Zaroc Stone wrote:

Mimic McCain...