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Straight talk from Obama

Justin Webb | 19:34 UK time, Tuesday, 23 September 2008

, but I do think the nation is ready to be told that it has to face up to these hard times and take whatever medicine is on offer.

Straight talk from both candidates would involve the news that taxes will have to rise and spending fall over the short- to medium-term - probably most taxes and most spending.

that Joe Biden has actually benefitted from the Palin phenomenon because it has kept him in the shadows where his errors go un-noticed.

I love setting out ghastly things that never quite come to pass.

But you cannot argue with the fact that the above scenario is at least , as is the equally ghastly one whereby one candidate gets a very sizeable majority of the votes but loses narrowly in some key states so still goes down.

UPDATE

There is now no doubt that . He must be rueing his (successful) effort to get the first debate on Friday changed from domestic to foreign affairs. Ooops.

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