Dear Senator Obama --.(Campaign 2008; Opinion)(Barack Obama)

Byline: Newt Gingrich; Gingrich, Former Speaker Of The House, Is The Author Of "Days Of Infamy" (St. Martin's Press).

A Republican reformer has advice for the new guy promising to clean up Washington: get specific.

Your campaign has been brilliant. It has given you more support and more momentum than most analysts expected a year ago. Keeping things simple and vague has worked so far, and it might work all the way to the White House. "Change you can believe in" is a great all-purpose slogan. It allows every person to fill in his or her own interpretation of what it means. In some ways, it's reminiscent of Jimmy Carter's 1976 promise to run "a government as good as the ...

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