Political Punch

Marie

Your post speaks for itself.

WE SHOULD ENDORSE A UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!

This is an election about:
Economic change
Job prosperity
Housing ( foreclosure campground)
education
A yes vote for this war--(About 145 thousand Americans are fighting this war) How many Americans have been killed fighting this war? How many more will die? -- AMERICA HAVE A LEADER FOR A WAR COMMITTEE, NOW LET US ELECT A PRESIDENT.

IOWA VOTED FOR CHANGE

Commander Guy wrote:

"Marie - fair enough on the speech. To each her own. I thought it read well. And at least you ain't callin up da little guy with the funny stache."

No, I am not. However, I do see a similarity to Mussolini. He was a very popular politician, could move the masses, brought schools to remote mountain villages in Italy that had never enjoyed such privilege. Poor Italians who had emigrated to this country sent their gold jewelry to support such effot, not knowing of the monstrous acts to come. Not Hitler, but perhaps Mussolini who started out as a true socialist and sucked in the peasants.

"I will never forget that in no other country on Earth is my story even possible," he said.

"It's a story that hasn't made me the most conventional candidate. But it is a story that has seared into my genetic makeup the idea that . . ."
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Uh, no other country has multiracial people, or what?
Are we comfy with the mystical idea that better political ideas are "seared" only into the "genetic makeup" of SOME folks, and not others?
If some white guy were spouting his mystical right to rule the world based on his "genetic makeup", we'd be a little NERVOUS, wouldn't we??

GEEVIL writes:
"It is an insulting attempt to lay a guilt trip on white people."
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. . . which can be healed only by a "vote for me"? (And if this hothouse flower were actually elected president: what THEN?)
Better the Democrats should nominate John Edwards. He's not "black", but he IS maybe a little Indian-looking.

But "...we can speculate on whether white men will all flock to John McCain in the general election regardless of his policies" really wasn't put forward as a prediction.

No, it is a statement indicting all white males as racists. "We' being Obama and his supporters. No where in the speech does he "speculate" about his own supporters. Everyone else is racist or part of the problem. Not Obama. Not a greart speech if you actually read it. It is an insulting attempt to lay a guilt trip on white people.

geevil writes:
Obama said that "we" are speculating that all white males will vote for McCain regardless of his policies.
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The interminable text of Obama's remarks is on huffingtonpost. The weirdest thing about the address: the line from "Requiem for a Nun".

But "...we can speculate on whether white men will all flock to John McCain in the general election regardless of his policies" really wasn't put forward as a prediction.

"Not this time"? Right: a Depression's coming down -- and this time, most Americans are NOT a generation off the farm. Superficial "diversity" aside, neither of these manufactured frontrunners really inspires much confidence.

The best Democratic nominee: John Edwards. The guy who actually KNOWS something about poverty.

DCV, Marie and the Gang

Ha Gang. HRC has thrown the towel on fighting this and has moved on.

She said in Philly today:

"I did not have a chance to see or to read yet Sen. Obama’s speech, but I’m very glad that he gave it. It’s an important topic," she said. "Issues of race and gender in America have been complicated throughout our history, and they have been complicated in this primary campaign. There have been detours and pitfalls along the way."

She further went on to say:

It isn't the quality of the speeches "It's whether the president delivers on the speeches."

There that wasn't so hard was it? HRC could see it.

DCV - I think you need to take a Break after violating Godwins Law Twice here now.

Marie - fair enough on the speech. To each her own. I thought it read well. And at least you ain't callin up da little guy with the funny stache.

I don't know if we will learn anything else about Senator Obama. I hope we don't learn it after he gets the nomination.

cappa - let's not forget that in 2004 he flat out said he would not run in 2008 because he was not qualified to do the job. In an interview with CNN after announcing his run, he said that yes he initially was not going to run but some senior democrats encouraged him to do so. Ferraro was right, some of the party set him up for this.. including the speech at the convention... let me guess... the liberal wing encouraged it? aka Kennedy Kerry clan?

marie - from a speech making critique perspective, i agree.. he looked down and read most of the time yet Jackson claims he bared his soul? On an issue that was supposed to be such a large part of his life? Nothing from his heart? He has to read it off a piece of paper? his stump speeches with a promise of change and hope were better but they lacked substance... this was nothing more than damage control from a typical politician

Irma, I've said many times that the enthusiastic endorsement of Obama by the Kennedy and Kerry establishment was in large part to get the power to manipulate a weak president. Obama is totally beholden to them and other politicians. I believe the real shame is that Kennedy, Kerry, etc. know that Hillary would be the best president, but they wouldn't be able to use her as a puppet.

Obama supporters: you think he stands for "Change"? Only if Kennedy, Kerry and all of the congressional supporters say so.

Tom J, may we hear specifics as to your opinion?

Last post errata:

"Incite" should be "insight"!! Funny though. LOL

“Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.”

“All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.”

“He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.”

“It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.”

“The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.”

- Adolf Hitler

Commander Guy said:

"DCV, Marie and the Gang
Why can't you all just say that BHO gave a good speech, but we like our Girl better? I mean with you gals, BHO can do nothing right and HRC can do no wrong"

Commnander Guy, Make no mistake, I really did not think was a "good speech." For the most part, I found it boring. I was never moved. I was never enlightened. I heard no revelation or incite.

I read on another bloggers post that John Kerry and Ted Kennedy were trying to win the Presidency they were never able to get, through having Obama as the candidate. Hmmmmm.

DCVoter stated:

I would have respected a more noble speech from him if he had said,

"With regards to Pastor Wright, I was there, I heard what he said, and I believe some of it to be truth. I lied to the American people and for that I truly apologize. I never intended to divide this country along racial lines and I see that my own struggles to accept myself and forgive others for their prejudice born of the ignorant acts of our ancestors played a role. I have failed in my quest to unite America because I am still torn within. For the good of the party, the country, and the world, I am withdrawing from the race and fully endorse Senator Clinton for President of the United States."

You know, DCV, I half expected him to step down and I envisioned a speech just like you have presented.

I am with Dreamer. Truly. I am half black, but from the beginning I knew Obama was manipulating people with race and that NEVER ends well. I know. I did experience being called the N word and being physically attacked for it at age seven, when we moved into an all white neighborhood in 1969. So I know. I just can't get past the fact that race became an issue because Obama CHOSE to make it so. Yes there is racism against black people, but I know now that the vast majority of white people, especially our generation and beyond are more open minded and willing to work out our differences. However, Obama, while preaching unity, called on and pointed to any race related issue possible, mostly to make accusations in order to win the Presidency. I will never trust him to unite the country when his tactics are so incredibly divisive.

DCV, Marie and the Gang

Why can't you all just say that BHO gave a good speech, but we like our Girl better? I mean with you gals, BHO can do nothing right and HRC can do no wrong.

BTW, this stuff about Jeffersonian Doctrine and such is plain nonsense. DCV, wasn't Ol'Jeff in Paris while the Constitution was drafted?