Colbert is fantastic tonight as well (David Simon is the guest.)

Thematically, Obama's totally building on Clintonism. He said the change we seek is to restore American Dream (you know exactly what I said a few weeks ago), make the economy work for all of us, again, as in 1880s (no more of that Clinton = Bush line now after the nomination's in the bag, uh huh!) and we are going to grow the economy from the bottom up so everyone shares in teh benefit. (That's the core, let's repeat that about five million times every eyar for forty years, THEN we will have political dominance. MAybe today it does not take as long with the internet.)

Similarly, Obama noted Clinton's focus on opportunity coupled with community and responsibillity (homage to Clinton's framing of it) and said we americans are an independenet people (wow-speaking words Americans love to hear and linking to our deepest self identity) and we don't want a handout we just want govt. to do what we can't do alone. (triple wow....it's just common sense....we need roads r and d etc. etc. govt. has to do it cuz we can't do it alone.....so much better than an intellectual debate about isms....)

Very good, tight, coherent, simple words that communicate what we are about and meet those charges of socialism, hand-out liberalism, etc.

Now that's some framing there.

Unity y'all--