Obama's speech - tremendous

[flopflipper]

Tremendous might be an understatement. Even supporters of Hillary and McCain should have been impressed by this speech.

Once someone gets ahold of a transcript, please add it here. I wasn't able to watch it here at work.

Consider it done:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/03/18/obama.transcript/index.html

You're a gentleman and a scholar. Not necessarily in that order. Thank you!

What was outstanding about it? He is what he is. He's an above average orator. He's also a marxist who believes that people aren't smart enough to take care of themselves and the government must do it for them. Class envy, class welfare. He could have just gone to Oprah's coach and cried. It would have accomplished the same thing.

 

[zeke12]

Damn.

He has raised the bar for his own speeches quite high.

And he still cleared it with that.

Talking about how he could no more disown his pastor than he could disown his grandmother, who told him she was scared when she walked past black men on the street.

That's powerful.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

The problem, of course, is two threads over.

http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/threads/54171/

 

[chubster]

That's the way you do that ****.
Now, watch the idiots start to pick it apart.

The only way for someone to pick it apart would be to say he's a liar because two days ago he said he never heard Rev. Wright make inflammatory comments while he was in church and in the speech he admitted he was.
But overall the speech was powerful and should silence the critics on this issue.

He said in 'conversations' he hadn't heard the Rev. disparage a group. He wasn't talking about the sermons.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Grimace, it was passion and excitement like that one nugget you quoted that got my lifelong conservative mother to change parties and vote for Obama in the primary.

I loved that "silly season" remark he made in the debate. I wish he would have mentioned Edwards' haircut, Hillary's bad tip and even thrown in something about Republican nitpicking BS.

I can't stand that crap. I hate how the networks say something's an issue, and then make it an issue by talking about it (that goes for democrats and republicans), assign a graphic to something, and then call it the candidate's (fill in the blank) problem.

Who says it's a problem? You? Well who the **** are you?

rant over

What's funny is that many of the same complaints people make about ESPN and how the talking heads there "make" the stories could also apply to politics.

The quality of both discourse on politics and sports has been ruined by talk radio over the years.

 

[jgmacg]

Tremendous might be an understatement. Even supporters of Hillary and McCain should have been impressed by this speech.

Once someone gets ahold of a transcript, please add it here. I wasn't able to watch it here at work.

Consider it done:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/03/18/obama.transcript/index.html

You're a gentleman and a scholar. Not necessarily in that order. Thank you!

What was outstanding about it? He is what he is. He's an above average orator. He's also a marxist who believes that people aren't smart enough to take care of themselves and the government must do it for them. Class envy, class welfare. He could have just gone to Oprah's coach and cried. It would have accomplished the same thing.

And now in stereo. Oy. Oy.

 

[Yawn]

It was great speech work, better put into action. Unfortunately, there's a huge difference between the two when it comes to political horse****.

 

[imjustagirl]

Grimace, it was passion and excitement like that one nugget you quoted that got my lifelong conservative mother to change parties and vote for Obama in the primary.

I loved that "silly season" remark he made in the debate. I wish he would have mentioned Edwards' haircut, Hillary's bad tip and even thrown in something about Republican nitpicking BS.

I can't stand that crap. I hate how the networks say something's an issue, and then make it an issue by talking about it (that goes for democrats and republicans), assign a graphic to something, and then call it the candidate's (fill in the blank) problem.

Who says it's a problem? You? Well who the **** are you?

rant over

What's funny is that many of the same complaints people make about ESPN and how the talking heads there "make" the stories could also apply to politics.

The quality of life has been ruined by talk radio over the years.

Fixed.

 

[Grimace]

Tremendous might be an understatement. Even supporters of Hillary and McCain should have been impressed by this speech.

Once someone gets ahold of a transcript, please add it here. I wasn't able to watch it here at work.

Consider it done:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/03/18/obama.transcript/index.html

You're a gentleman and a scholar. Not necessarily in that order. Thank you!

What was outstanding about it? He is what he is. He's an above average orator. He's also a marxist who believes that people aren't smart enough to take care of themselves and the government must do it for them. Class envy, class welfare. He could have just gone to Oprah's coach and cried. It would have accomplished the same thing.

That entire speech was about the hope for the elimination of class welfare, class envy. You obviously didn't read it.

But, hey the Oprah reference? Hi-larious!

(i can double post, too!)

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Grimace, it was passion and excitement like that one nugget you quoted that got my lifelong conservative mother to change parties and vote for Obama in the primary.

I loved that "silly season" remark he made in the debate. I wish he would have mentioned Edwards' haircut, Hillary's bad tip and even thrown in something about Republican nitpicking BS.

I can't stand that crap. I hate how the networks say something's an issue, and then make it an issue by talking about it (that goes for democrats and republicans), assign a graphic to something, and then call it the candidate's (fill in the blank) problem.

Who says it's a problem? You? Well who the **** are you?

rant over

What's funny is that many of the same complaints people make about ESPN and how the talking heads there "make" the stories could also apply to politics.

The quality of life has been ruined by talk radio over the years.

Fixed.

You know, you're abso-****ing-lutely correct.

 

[Grimace]

It was great speech work, better put into action. Unfortunately, there's a huge difference between the two when it comes to political horse****.

There's a place for you in Obama's America, Yawn.

With arms wide open, we welcome you. Yawn is a part of me. And he is a part of America, this country that I love

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

I may be mistaken, but, as I recall, that was how a president of the United States used to sound.

 

[zeke12]

I may be mistaken, but, as I recall, that was how a president of the United States used to sound.

Damn right.

 

[Pastor]

Tremendous might be an understatement. Even supporters of Hillary and McCain should have been impressed by this speech.

Once someone gets ahold of a transcript, please add it here. I wasn't able to watch it here at work.

Consider it done:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/03/18/obama.transcript/index.html

You're a gentleman and a scholar. Not necessarily in that order. Thank you!

What was outstanding about it? He is what he is. He's an above average orator. He's also a marxist who believes that people aren't smart enough to take care of themselves and the government must do it for them. Class envy, class welfare. He could have just gone to Oprah's coach and cried. It would have accomplished the same thing.

You wouldn’t know a Marxist if one came up to you with a shirt on saying “I’m a Marxist” and punched you in the face. In fact, I doubt you would know one without the face punching.

You, sir, are a ****ing moron.

I may be mistaken, but, as I recall, that was how a president of the United States used to sound.

Damn right.

FACT!

 

[Mizzougrad96]

It was a great speech... Hardly stunning that everybody here thinks it's the equivalent of "I Have a Dream..."

 

[Rumpleforeskin]

"Tina Fey came on the show three weeks ago and declared ***** is the new black. And you know I love you Tina, you know you my girl, but I have something to say. ***** may be the new black, but black is the new President, *****." ~ Tracy Morgan

 

[Inky_Wretch]

It was a great speech... Hardly stunning that everybody here thinks it's the equivalent of "I Have a Dream..."

I don't think it was even 75 percent as good as MLK's classic.

But Obama did deliver a thoughtful, intelligent speech on a very complex issue. And he did it damn well while making some good points about the state of American politics.

 

[alleyallen]

It was a great speech... Hardly stunning that everybody here thinks it's the equivalent of "I Have a Dream..."

Has someone made that comparison yet?

 

[EStreetJoe]

It was a great speech... Hardly stunning that everybody here thinks it's the equivalent of "I Have a Dream..."

I never said that. It's a great speech, tremendous even, but speeches like "I Have a Dream" are so tremendous they're in a class to themselves head & shoulders above anything else.

 

[JR]

It was a great speech... Hardly stunning that everybody here thinks it's the equivalent of "I Have a Dream..."

Well, it's a respite from a guy who can barely string a sentence together.