And in 2004, I think John Kerry made a head decision, that was in choosing John Edwards, who he didn't really feel that comfortable with, but felt that it was politically going to be advantageous.
You've got to think not simply about August in Denver. You've got to think about those four years of lunches with the vice president, as well as the counsel, and the sense of loyalty that David mentioned.
David Brooks I mark it to the day when [Obama] broke his pledge on the campaign finance, turned down the idea of having campaign events with John McCain, which would have been new. He became much more conventional.
The New York Times
Obama's appeal to the people
JIM LEHRER: All right, speaking of August in Denver, David, what is the message that Barack Obama must deliver, not only to the hall, but to the whole country next week?
DAVID BROOKS: Well, Mark just talked about it. I think it's yesterday versus tomorrow. If you're a junior senator, you're 47 years old, you don't have the experience to match up against John McCain, it better be about tomorrow.
And I think that's what Obama started with in Iowa and New Hampshire. It was all chronology, new politics, new age. And, frankly, I think that's what he's lost in the last month. I think his campaign has become a much more conventional campaign.
I mark it to the day when he broke his pledge on the campaign finance, turned down the idea of having campaign events with John McCain, which would have been new. He became much more conventional.
And if you watch him on the stump, now he sounds a little like Hillary Clinton. He's giving a bunch of bread-and-butter promises on this policy, that policy, that policy. If they wanted Hillary Clinton's campaign, they should have nominated Hillary Clinton.
What Obama offers is tomorrow versus yesterday. And it seems to me he's got to re-establish that theme. And the theme is: We're in a global world. We're in a multicultural world. The frameworks of the old world don't apply. I am the new framework. My frameworks do apply. And that's why you should vote for me as opposed to the guy who has more experience.
JIM LEHRER: Do you agree, Mark, he must return to tomorrow?
MARK SHIELDS: I think tomorrow is an important subtext. I do think there's a couple of things that Barack Obama has to accomplish in this convention.
One, the party must come out of it united. There can't be any lingering doubts or any postscripts about whether the Clintons are on board.
Right now, what is causing this race to be close, as much as anything, is that 11 percent of the voters who are Hillary Clinton supporters, who are voting Democrat for Congress and for the Senate, who think that George Bush and Dick Cheney are twin disasters, right now have a 2-to-1 favorable judgment on John McCain and a 2-to-1 unfavorable judgment on Barack Obama.
And that has to be reversed in this election. They are -- in this convention. And they are women, overwhelmingly, between the ages of 35 and 49.
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