Obama keeps to the high road

Obama shares an unfortunate tendency toward long-windedness with John Kerry. When asked by Keith Olbermann about 527 groups and why the Obama camp isn't using such groups to attack the McCain campaign, Obama rambled for a bit, saying a few things that hinted at but failed to make his overall point.

In the midst of his answer Obama said that he's "confidant that the american people are going to say to themselves 'Do we want to keep doing the same thing or do we want something new?'" and "By the time this thing is over the contrast is gonna be clear. The American people are going to make the choice for a new direction for the country..."

Now maybe I'm reading into his answer, but it seems to me that what he was trying to say was something like:

• We're promising change to the American people. And we're delivering. We're not just going to do things differently after the election. We're doing things differently now.
• Instead of swift-boating people, we're talking about the issues. Instead of getting distracted by the things that don't matter, we're talking about the things that do.
• We're running a different kind of campaign. And I trust the American people to see the difference in what we offer.

I hope he's right.