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And that something is, we're optimists. OK, so how do you think the economy's going to do over the next few years?
I don't really want or need to add to the acres of verbiage generated by today's speech. I mean, it was a decent effort, but didn't really tell us much about the central question (though that may come later).
But I will say this: it's very hard to present yourself as a shining optimist when your core message is we're all doomed.
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I really want Ed Milliband to be the new George McGovern, collegiate radical, but he's trying his best to be the new Hubert Humphrey, politician of joy.
Yes, I am aware what the two of those have in common: a right-wing opponent who hammered them both largely on the basis of the failures of their party's two previous leaders - one enormously popular, the other less so.
How's that for transatlantic parallelism?
Posted by: Scott | September 29, 2010 at 02:15 PM