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Words in Action

By js

Ezra Klein explains why Clinton's new all-hat-no-cattle tack rings hollow:

In her speech tonight, Clinton launched her broadside against Obama by saying that "while words matter, the best words in the world aren't enough unless you match them with action." The problem for her is that Obama has matched his words with actions, fulfilled his promises with votes. It's her campaign that rests on an increasingly precarious foundation of words and that needs to demonstrate results to match its rhetoric.

There's a similar irony to McCain's demand for policy-detail from Obama. See, e.g., climate change.

Full post as published by Expressio Unius on February 20, 2008 (boomark / email).