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A great leader gets the music right as well as the words. It took a little while, but Obama now does both. He has the campaign’s poetry, leaving Clinton with the prose.

A century ago, in the great textile strike of 1912 in Lawrence, the women mill workers insisted, “Give us bread, but give us roses.” If Obama wins, the one-time community organizer will have deftly offered Americans both the roses and the bread.

Robert Kuttner