Another is the failure of Democrats to excite us with a positive alternative vision.
He doesn't have an alternative vision to the vision - the liberal vision of the Democratic leadership.
So the first thing he did was to defeat the alternative vision for a Republican Party that was separated from principle.
"The challenge we face is both to set out a radical and credible alternative and to win public trust for that alternative vision, " he said.
The GOP convention, like the Romney campaign itself, seemed to have an explicit strategy of defining itself in opposition without spelling out an alternative vision.
By the end, despite efforts to put an enthusiastic face on the event, Netanyahu must have been grateful there have been no Israeli politicians offering an alternative vision as clear as Obama's.
He thinks he has an alternative and better vision for Middlesbrough.
The idea of his paper is to put forward a positive vision, a credible alternative.
"It requires a real vision and acceptance that this strategic partnership is the only alternative to a world in which we break up into different poles of power, acting as rivals to one another, with every single dispute in the world being played off against these different poles of power, " he said.
Instead, Mr Burnham wants to see a "Modern Baccalaureate" as an alternative to what he describes as "Gove's narrow backward-looking vision".
Vilsack has championed the development of ethanol, an alternative energy, in Iowa -- something that coincides with Obama's vision for an energy-independent future, and something he can promote from the Department of Agriculture.
In this context it was necessary for France to establish an alternative truth, and it is a measure of de Gaulle's extraordinary political vision that he understood that imperative and acted upon it.
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