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Justin Webb | 22:11 UK time, Wednesday, 28 May 2008

A takes both the (presumed) candidates to task and for an interesting reason you will never hear properly discussed on the 24-hour news shows.

This is the central point:

"Hypocrisy is not the biggest issue. The real issue is that Messrs. Obama and McCain are telling us Americans that our normal lives are not good enough, that pursuing our own happiness is "self-indulgence," that building a business is "chasing after our money culture," that working to provide a better life for our families is a "narrow concern". They're wrong. Every human life counts. Your life counts. You have a right to live it as you choose, to follow your bliss. You have a right to seek satisfaction in accomplishment. And if you chase after the almighty dollar, you just might find that you are led, as if by an invisible hand, to do things that improve the lives of others."

This - to me - is a uniquely American message. And yet you rarely hear it argued with vigour...

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