These half-hour spots in the walk-up to an election used to be commonplace. For some reason, they were given up on, perhaps because campaigns believe people don’t have the necessary attention spans for speechifying any longer. But if you are Barack Obama and you want people to view you as a credible president, wouldn’t giving a credible presidential speech be the best way to do that? And wouldn’t it be more reassuring to your own voters and to those you want to move to your side to be bombarded with serious and measured rhetoric rather than outtakes from a cereal commercial?
A Final Perot-Reagan Point
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