TIME MAGAZINE--CLOSING ARGUMENT

McCain and Palin tried to build fences, looking for safe ground; Obama bulldozed them, in the search for common ground.


It's idealistic except that, especially now, you get the feeling that the reason Obama's drawing crowds of 50,000, 75,000, 100,000 in even purple and red states is that people want to see what Different might look like.

"Despite what our opponents may claim, there are no real and fake parts of this country," he said. "We are one nation, all of us proud, all of us patriots. There are patriots who supported this war in Iraq and patriots who opposed it; patriots who believe in Democratic policies and those who believe in Republican policies.

"The men and women who serve in our battlefields may be Democrats and Republicans and Independents, but they have fought together and bled together and some died together under the same proud flag. They have not served a Red America or a Blue America — they have served the United States of America."