What’s in a name?
by Brian Reich | 2 Sep 2008, 9:16pm
What’s In A Name?
About half-way through his speech tonight at the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Senator Joe Lieberman uttered two words that no Republican had been willing, or able, to do in the first two days of the Convention. Those two words: Barack Obama. In fact, he used the Democratic nominee’s name twice, in two consecutive sentences.
Compare that to last week’s Democratic Convention.
Barack Obama used John McCain’s name four times in his acceptance speech. Joe Biden used John McCain’s name more than a dozen times in his speech at the Democratic Convention, even going out of his way to call the Senator his ‘friend.’ In fact, with the exception of Bill Clinton’s speech (which focused far more on bolstering Obama’s candidacy than breaking down McCain’s), I can’t find a major speaker at the Democratic Convention who didn’t mention John McCain by name
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