Dana Milbank: Obama Isn't Ducking Role in Election Reprise of '94
[Dana Milbank is a columnist for the WaPo.]
Get out your Wonderbras and your "Forrest Gump" videocassettes. It's starting to feel like 1994 all over again....
But the strangest similarity may be in President Obama's speeches. As he barnstorms the country in these closing days before the midterms, he has borrowed Bill Clinton's 1994 stump speech -- in some cases, word for word....
Obama has even extended Clinton's automotive metaphor of '94. Clinton's model: "You know, if you drive your car and there's a lot of stuff on the windshield, you could think it's dark outside when the sun shining. . . . That's what they've done. They've put a lot of dirt on America's windshield. We got to clean it off between now and Tuesday. Will you help? Will you do your part? Will you go forward? . . . Think about it like this: Every one of you is in the driver's seat."...
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Get out your Wonderbras and your "Forrest Gump" videocassettes. It's starting to feel like 1994 all over again....
But the strangest similarity may be in President Obama's speeches. As he barnstorms the country in these closing days before the midterms, he has borrowed Bill Clinton's 1994 stump speech -- in some cases, word for word....
Obama has even extended Clinton's automotive metaphor of '94. Clinton's model: "You know, if you drive your car and there's a lot of stuff on the windshield, you could think it's dark outside when the sun shining. . . . That's what they've done. They've put a lot of dirt on America's windshield. We got to clean it off between now and Tuesday. Will you help? Will you do your part? Will you go forward? . . . Think about it like this: Every one of you is in the driver's seat."...