HE'S HANDED YOU THE BALL, RUN WITH IT:

Obama hammers McCain over Social Security (Sasha Johnson, 9/20/08, CNN)

Barack Obama told voters here that if John McCain became president he would “privatize” their Social Security – a debate over the program that could resurface as a major issue in the closing weeks of the campaign given the wild swings in financial markets.

Winning the "change" argument requires proposing actual changes. Let Senator Obama defend a 70 year old program that no one thinks (though erroneously) will still be paying out in a couple decades and run instead on the sorts of personalized accounts that most voters have through work nowadays and that W won on twice. He opposes reform. You'll lead it.

Posted by Orrin Judd at September 20, 2008 12:40 PM