Obama lovefest. Wow, I can feel the warmth over here!

Jumper and HP. Wow.

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Nobody doubts how fantastic of a speaker Barack Obama is and how impressive his rocket-ride of political stardom has been in the past year.

But I find it too easy to see past that and into the void where his substance should be.

This piece from Cato sums it up perfectly. Thanks, David Boaz.

Sen. Barack Obama has excited the national media, Andrew Sullivan, young voters, and 38 percent of Iowa Democrats with his message of “change” and “hope” and “becoming one people, the United States of America.” It makes for a great speech. But I’m reminded of what the Democratic establishment candidate, Walter Mondale, said to insurgent Gary Hart after Hart did well in the 1984 Iowa caucuses with a campaign of “new ideas”: Where’s the beef?

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But my main point here is, these are the same policies that Sen. Hillary Clinton proposes. So what’s so new? In what way does Obama offer “change” or “hope” or something different from ”the same kind of partisan battling we had in the ’90s”? Where’s the beef?

Great marketing.