One Handshake At A Time

(AP)

He offered to the Young Democrats his core stump speech, which, as most every candidate does, he would repeat at stop after stop. ("I can recite it in my sleep," one of his aides later boasted, or confessed.) It's an account of what he would do in his first six days in office: Pull all the troops out of Iraq, organize an "all-Muslim peacekeeping force," move toward universal health care, launch a campaign for energy independence, make college more accessible, and reaffirm American values.