As New Hampshire votes, Obama test-talks a new stump speech

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With the eyes of the nation's political world focused on the Republican presidential primary contest in New Hampshire, the nation's top Democrat took a new stump speech out for a test-talk.

After another demanding Monday, including a casual lunch with Joe and celebrating the NBA champs, who are not his hometown Bulls, Obama did, not one, but two Democrat fundraisers in the nation's capital. One for the 1% who can afford $45,000 to sit around a table and chat in private with POTUS. And one for the 99% who each paid at least $100 to hear the speech below.

At first glance, the stump remarks have familiar themes and phrasings. And, of course, there is the reliable but unidentified crowd member who shouts "We love you!" right after the second paragraph.

What's new in Obama's 32-minute rhetorical exercise is his bid to tie the Republican candidate -- all of them, just to be safe -- to the still-vacationing Congress whose job approval is right down there in the single digits. Only one of the six remaining GOPers are in Congress now, but that's a technicality, as is the fact that Democrats have controlled the Senate for the last five years and the House for four of those five.

According to Obama, he has a "vision of a big, bold, ambitious, compassionate" America. But there are those who would oppose him for political reasons, if you can imagine such a thing. The nation's problems, which as everyone knows started before he took office, are not yet fixed, although he sees significant progress somewhere.

"Real change," Obama says, "big change is hard. It's always been hard. It takes more than a single term."