wouldn't mind being lifted

"Mr. Obama, It's Time for Some Poetry"
is the title of a column written by Nicholas Kristof --

he writes,
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It's puzzling -- candidate Obama could be so inspiring and eloquent, while President Obama has been flat. I wonder if he hasn't absorbed too much of Mario Cuomo's dictum: "We campaign in poetry, and we govern in prose."
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Please, Mr. Obama! The prose needn't be as dry as the Harvard Law Review. And we wouldn't mind being lifted by an occasional verse of poetry.

If Mr. Obama is going to connect with voters, he must confront the economic crisis emotionally as well as intellectually. He'll need to focus not only on optimal policies but also on pithy messages. It does no good to have a great product if no one buys it.

Bill Clinton would be a terrific tutor. Despite his current wealth, he came across on the stump as virtually another victim of the recession while arguing lucidly for Democrats as the best redress for that pain. Mr. Clinton is as much a policy wonk as Mr. Obama, but he devotes far more energy to marketing.
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This guy thinks what we need is some poetry. Well -- he isn't being hostile, mindless, or verbally abusive, so I'm not going to veto it or make fun of it.

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"Well," said Pooh, "in poetry -- in a piece of poetry -- well, you DID it, Piglet, because the poetry says you did. And that's how people know."

[From The House At

Pooh Corner,

by A.A. Milne,

Copyr. 1928, E.P.

Dutton]

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