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Give Us Hope!

Obama started out his speech with some canny remarks about unity in the Democratic Party. But now he's doing his populist schtick--which grows extremely tiresome after the twelfth "personal story" about "folks" he met on the campaign trail. It's almost enough to make one yearn for more bromides about hope and change.

--Isaac Chotiner