From The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
By Cynthia Tucker

To: Barack Obama

From: A political junkie

Re: Unsolicited advice

Please continue to ignore the carping from panicky partisans, know-it-all pundits and Washington insiders. You clearly know more about running your unorthodox campaign than anyone else.

After all, one of your biggest selling points in this season is that you have better judgment than John McCain. Continue to rely on that judgment. If you make it as far as the Oval Office, you’ll get conflicting advice from experts every day. You’ll be the one who has to make the hard calls, and you seem completely comfortable doing that.

On Thursday night, you audaciously went counter to the notion that you should scale back on spectacle to try to blunt McCain’s sophomoric taunts about your being a “celebrity.” You accepted the Democratic nomination for the presidency in front of a stomping, whistling and cheering audience of 84,000 in an outdoor stadium, after performances by genuine celebrities Sheryl Crow, Stevie Wonder, John Legend and will.i.am.

Your backdrop resembled the West Wing of the White House. You even had the weather gods on your side: clear, cool and dry at Invesco Field. No rain.

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