OK, let’s hear it,
If you watched it, what did you think? Was this a turning point in the US presidential election? Or will people forget this come November 04th?
All comments welcome…
OK, let’s hear it,
If you watched it, what did you think? Was this a turning point in the US presidential election? Or will people forget this come November 04th?
All comments welcome…
I couldn’t bear the BS.
This man is an empty suit who cannot speak without a teleprompter. The stadium full of losers who idolize this phoney who squalls about his brothers keeper, don’t even ask why his half brother lives on 12 dollars a year in Kenya, when Barry lives like a king. Let this clown be a lesson to Canadians who think there is anything but bannana resolve within Stepon Dion. Obamas speech is nothing but a ripoff of Hitlers/Kings and Kennedys speeches. Vote for this phoney at your own peril, when that fool Diddler online endorses someone with such a woody as he has the past week, you gotta know the man is a flake.
I’m so sorry I missed it; I suppose I’ll just have to wait until November.
After watching Barracks speech tonight I think he just shot his chance to be President in the foot.
A good orator, but aside from a couple of points
that seemed to transcend regular partisan politics, it seemed his speech was directed at hard core, far left Democrats. That just won’t do as McCain’s record reflects that he is probably one of the most Liberal Republicans.
Middle of the road Dems are likely to vote McCain or stay home.
Obama did not win any new fans tonight or bring Clinton supporters into the fold.
And the Clintons will be working behind the scenes to ensure that Obama is not
successful in his bid, for if he does become President, Hillary can kiss her dreams of occupying that office goodbye for at least the next 12 years. Too long for her.
Unfortunately if Barrack is not successful it will be painted as a racially tainted failure, instead of a failure due to not fielding the
best candidate for the times, which will only serve to further polarize the electorate.
COUNTRY MUSIC for his exit?? I think he just lost the Black vote.
Did they play this song at the media event?
And these children that you spit on
As they try to change their worlds
Are immune to your consultations
They’re quite aware of what they’re going through
[Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes]
Turn and face the strange [ch-ch-changes]
Don’t tell them to grow up and out of it
[Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes]
Turn and face the strange [ch-ch-changes]
Where’s your shame, you’ve left us up to our necks in it
Time may change me, but you can’t trace time
Strange fascination fascinating me
Ah, changes are taking the pace I’m going through
[Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes]
Turn and face the strange [ch-ch-changes]
Oh, look out, you rock and rollers
[Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes]
Turn and face the strange [ch-ch-changes]
Pretty soon now, you’re gonna get older*
Time may change me, but I can’t trace time
I said that time may change me, but I can’t trace time
* So vote for “change” now, before you grow up and [GASP/SHOCK!] change into a conservative.
I didn’t know Jack Layton was on the ticket.
Well he sure does have charisma and loves to talk but I don’t think the McCain/Bush thing is going to work. His lack of experience will kill him.
Also noted was Gore’s speech where he referred to BO’s “experience” multiple times – WTF was that if not prime material for GOP counter-ads?
Then again, Gore also HAD to mention climate change, so…
This is ugly…showcase appointments my arse.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/geoffrey-dickens/2008/08/28/matthews-insults-rice-powell-showcase-appointments
The constant dragging in of the veterans turned my stomach. Apart from Biden’s son who I believe is about to ship out, how many delegates have children in Iraq?
It was too long and the list of things he is going to do was so long it was ridiculous, especially since he promises to cut taxes to 95% of taxpayers.
I guess they cut out the Hollywood stars (I missed the presentations before, I could be wrong) at the last minute so he would look humble.
A guy on PBS said it was better than Kennedy’s New Frontier speech – not likely. Another commentator (New York Times?) said he was disappointed and had seen better speeches by Barack.
The public network people said he had tried to diffuse the divisive issues by talking about abortion, etc., but he barely spent one minute on each issue and I guess we are all suppose to just hug on these issues. By the way since when do Liberals fight against stopping the number of unwanted preganancies – liberal values encourage sleeping around at a young age.
That statement about unwanted pregnancies and many others I have heard before from Barack so the speech must have been a bit boring for the crowd, unless of course they love to take part in the repetition of ritual as in the Barack religion.
He was pretty smooth, but I just can’t see him up against Putin. As they say in French, “Il ne fait pas le poids”.
The constant dragging in of the veterans turned my stomach. Apart from Biden’s son who I believe is about to ship out, how many delegates have children in Iraq?
It was too long and the list of things he is going to do was so long it was ridiculous, especially since he promises to cut taxes to 95% of taxpayers.
I guess they cut out the Hollywood stars (I missed the presentations before, I could be wrong) at the last minute so he would look humble.
A guy on PBS said it was better than Kennedy’s New Frontier speech – not likely. Another commentator (New York Times?) said he was disappointed and had seen better speeches by Barack.
The public network people said he had tried to diffuse the divisive issues by talking about abortion, etc., but he barely spent one minute on each issue and I guess we are all suppose to just hug on these issues. By the way since when do Liberals fight against stopping the number of unwanted preganancies – liberal values encourage sleeping around at a young age.
That statement about unwanted pregnancies and many others I have heard before from Barack so the speech must have been a bit boring for the crowd, unless of course they love to take part in the repetition of ritual as in the Barack religion.
He was pretty smooth, but I just can’t see him up against Putin. As they say in French, “Il ne fait pas le poids”.
It fell short in my opinion. Certainly was not one of the great speeches of all time as it was billed to be.
What really amazes me however is the complete and total grovelling of the media over Obama. I’ve never seen anything quite like it. They are no longer even trying to hide their bias. They might as well all be wearing Obama buttons.
The Obama movement in my mind has become a cult.
The question is, can a cult based on essentially nothing sustain its momentum until November. I doubt it.
I had to stop watching the run up to the speech as I don’t normally watch rock concerts, but I returned to the television in time for Obama’s speech. The man stumbles and bumbles when speaking off the cuff, but he sure can use a teleprompter. The delivery was good, but without very many memorable lines. It was like two speeches, the first where America has so many problems you might think it was somewhere in the Third World, and the second in which there is limitless promise. Which is it? Also, at one point, he decried the lack of civility in politics, and then a few minutes later took a number of cheap shots at McCain. One of them involved John McCain being afraid to follow Osama bin Laden to his cave. What this means, I don’t know. If his cave is in Pakistan, is Obama advocating going there? His views on Iraq are completely wrong-headed, and indicate a stubbornness that Dems often accuse Bush of. I grudgingly admitted that it made for better television than I thought, even if it was over the top. No doubt all the talking heads from the MSM will praise it to the skies and he will get some bounce from it, so long as everyone ignores the boiler-plate liberal policies he outlined based on wishful thinking and a willful ignorance of human nature. If people really believe that Mrs. Obama, Hillary, and Bill gave great speeches, they’ll buy anything. One more thing, the choice of a country and western song at the end seemed an odd choice for all these city slickers and Hollywood types.
Wow! How do all you idiots find each other? Or is this just break time at the local Sarcan and you all take turns writing a post? Obama is going to be the president and he will be remembered as one of the greatest presidents of all time! You people are so pathetic.
So after Barrack Hussein Obama’s theatrical speech, which was the archetypal liberal, tax and spend speech that far-left Democrats have been promulgating for the last 3 decades, what do we now know about this ingenuousness, archetypal politician ?
Well, we know that Barrack Hussein Obama will sacrifice the imminent victory and will cut, run and retreated to the Iraqi Muslim terrorists;
We know that Barrack Hussein Obama would, in effect, give a veto to the likes of France, China and Germany and anyone else who whined enough about any abrasive re-action taken against their darling terrorists;
We know that Barrack Hussein Obama will implement numerous types of tax increases that will detrimentally effect almost all Americans except, of course those on welfare;
We know that Barrack Hussein Obama will apply a mammoth, across the board tax increase that will bankrupt small businesses and radically increase the unemployment rate?
We know that Barrack Hussein Obama will implement an immense increase in spending and taxation as the country charges towards a socialistic dream. .
We know that Barrack Hussein Obama’s environmental policies will take a major step towards de-industrializing America back to the 14th century. ( by the way, this is similar to Dion de-industrialization policy;
We know that hundreds of thousand of babies will continued to be slaughtered annually my mothers who rebuff altering their life styles for their babies;.
We know that union members will loose their right to a private vote;.
We know that radical Rev. Wright and terrorists Bill Ayers have influence Barack Hussein Obama throughout his career; and we wonder who else may have influenced him.
Give the man his dues. He is a great orator. Not a factual orator but a great giver of speeches. After all, who else could get away with saying that we can live with the people owning guns but not AK47’s, while his past history he voted against ALL gun ownership issues. Yet the people cheered. Who else can say that he has a way to pay for all of his plans by saying it will cost money but he will cut taxes for the middle class. Yet, the people cheered. Who else can say that he is ready to debate John McCain while all the time refusing to debate McCain in a open forum. Yet the people cheered. It seems that BS is good eating with some of the people in America. I truly believe that over the next few months he will implode. He is already in trouble for trying to shutdown a talk radio show in Chicago for discussing the BO and Ayers connection. Even though the BO campaign was invited to refute the item discussed. Then trying to get the Attorney General to go after the makers of the Video pinning BO and Ayers as friends. Each attack by the BO campaign is a direct affront to free speech and as he does more and more of this, it will start to wear thin on the average Joe America. For us political junkies this election is one for the books.
I thought the speech was boring.
E. Burke can i use your time machine sometime? When you went into the future did you see who won the World Series? I wanna put some money on it.
McCain has officially gone from Republican to Republican’t.
I repeat what I stated yesterday, for better or worse, this contest is over! McCain can’t match Obama’s charisma and optimism. Obama was effective at portraying McCain’s policies as a stodgy and ineffective response at a critical juncture in US history. More importantly, I believe Obama anticipated the personal attacks that the McCain camp were preparing to smear him with in the coming campaign (lack of patriotism, effete and being out of touch with common people), and effectively neutralized their potential impact. At the same time, Obama did well to praise McCain the person, while severely criticizing his record and policies.
Only election rigging can save McCain now. But Republicans would never stoop to that.
When I see people gloating over Obama and his speeches I realize why fools can be elected so easily.
The average voter, it would seem, is unbelievably gullible.
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All of those teary eyes Democrats. Some people I talked with thought that the speech had substance, I didn’t see any. I thought there was a stream of mom, apple pie, pie in the sky mush.
What a coincidence that Obamas speech was on a key anniversary of Martin Luther Kings famous speech, or that Obama has a 10 year energy plan. It seems that Obama is banking on creating an association between himself, and past American leaders who really did make a difference.
I think this guy is a lightweight – it is scary how many desperate souls out there that are buying into his pitch. He reminds me so much of Robert Redfords character in the movie “The Candidate”, who once elected looked up to his campaign manager and asked “so what do we do now?”
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cbailey:
My degree is in poli-sci;regretabilly not MLB.
That could explain why I’m a vivid NYY fan.
Hey, at least we won one VS the red sox today!
Pam Geller said it best:
Obama is the guy you date,McCain is the guy you marry.
My favourite promise was to end dependence on Middle Eastern oil in 10 years. Sweet! Unless I am really off on my geography, Saskatchewan is not part of the Middle East. Come all ye Democrats and suckle from our crude blackened teat! We’ll also supply the uranium for Obama’s planned reactors and grain for his biofuel. Its one stop energy shopping and narry a mujadeen in sight.
You can actually embed Obama’s video on your post straight from CNN. Check out the videos – http://www.cnn.com/video/
on the CNN site, there is pre-roll advertising, but once you embed the video on your site, the pre-roll advertising is removed. (at least for now, CNN has launched their video embed feature without advertising)
“Well, we know that Barrack Hussein Obama will sacrifice the imminent victory and will cut, run and retreated to the Iraqi Muslim terrorists;”
E. Burke Your saying there in Iraq because of Iraqi Muslim terrorists? I don’t recall one Iraqi being involved in 9/11. Or are you saying all Muslim people are terrorists?
“McCain is the guy you marry.”
I can see the appeal. An old rich fart with waning libido and 7 houses in the current US real estate market. I can see all the young lasses lining up.
I call “E. Burke” a troll/flamebaiter.
Very fluffy.
Bill Stewart @ 11:58, charisma and optimism does not a leader make. “McCain is preparing to smear him with lack of patriotism, effete and being out of touch with common people”??!! do you know that for sure? Is that what McCain is all about? Well blow me down, let’s call off the election now because Bill Stewart has made the call. Besides the fact that Barack Hussein Obama has a lack of patriotism, is definitely effete (not that there’s anything wrong with that)and is out of touch with the common people, unless of course you call Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, Pastor Phelps common people.
From Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit, in response to a question regarding Instapundit’s commentary on the campaign:
Well, as I’ve said before, this is an opinion blog, not a political blog-machine like Kos, and you’re right that it’s focused on media criticism. I don’t tell people who to vote for, and I don’t see putting people in the White House as part of my mission — or something that a blog can do anyway. (My occasional talk about endorsing Obama — though it worried some readers — is a joke, as I don’t endorse people; endorsements seem kinda presumptuous for a blogger, in my opinion.) McCain will have to give you the reasons to vote for him, and that will probably start to happen more next week. At least if he wants to win. My take on Obama, as I’ve said before, is that he’s not really ready to be President, and that he didn’t think he’d get this far when he started this campaign — what’s followed has been brilliant improvisation, propped up by a lot of media sympathy. That media sympathy hasn’t been entirely good for him, though, as I think it’s encouraged some mistakes that a more experienced, or more careful, candidate would have avoided. He might still make a good President — some people with great credentials and experience have made lousy Presidents, and some people with weak resumes have made good ones. But it’s quite irritating to see just how in-the-tank the press is for Obama, an irritation that quite a few Democrats have noticed as well. I don’t mind ’em having opinions, I just wish they’d put ’em on the opinion pages. Or start blogging!
kelly,
First, I’m not sure what you mean by “blow me down”, but for the record that’s not how I roll. That the McCan’t campaign would/will launch personal attacks on Obama is quite predictable, since the best predictor of future behaviour is often past behaviour. They’ve been doing it for months. I thought Obama did a good job of rebuking and neutralizing the effectiveness of those attacks while at the same time setting up the hope that this election not be shaped mainly by negative campaigning. On the subject of leadership, you’re right that it takes more than charisma and “audacious hope”, but I simply pointed out that on that score McCain is not even close. BTW, I thought Obama’s best punch was when he praised McCain for his duty and service as a soldier, while at the same time reminding viewers that a good soldier does not a leader make.
And sorry, I disagree. Obama did an excellent job of highlighting his humble and inspiring story, his work with the disenfranchised in Chigago, and his sympathy for all those suffering under a challenged economy.
I watched/listened to the whole thing with my 14-year old daughter. She’s not a politico but even she thought he was blaming GWB for everything wrong in America, including Katrina.
I have never been inspired by BO and tonight was no exception. His bleating on about being “my brother’s keeper” is rather ironic considering the condition of his own brother.
He’s tried hard to link McCain and GWB and the crowd ate it up. The part about McCain not following Osama bin Laden into his cave baffled me – is he planning on tromping through the mountains of Pakistan himself?
Definitely not a speech for the ages, will be forgotten as soon as the MSM’s giddiness subsides .
But Bill, the most ambitious work of writing/thinking BO has done during his career is a book. An autobiography.
But it’s all about change (no matter what), isn’t it.
Did some media moron make a comment recently comparing Obama to Rice and Powell, mentioning that the latter two didn’t rise to the top all by themselves while BO did?
I watched bits of it but just couldn’t stand the faux-ness of its surroundings – show-biz hype and optics masquerading as a political event.
Much the same reason why I hated KISS.
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Two of the most far-right observers thought it was a good speech:
Bill Crystal noted some good points that rebutted some of McCain’s angle of attack and Charles Krauthammer thought it was smart of BO to essentially abandon the airy change rhetoric that has been failing to grow his support in the recent months and switch to more traditional longer-lasting DEM-left rhetoric.
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I think it will always be a hugely historic speech because it was the first by a black POTUS nominee. But it was also a speech by the least- qualified person to ever get to that POTUS-nominee position.
This is patently clear to many of the more experienced and frankly more wise DEMs and they politely waved and cheered BO’s speech but will also go home and begin working on hillary2012.com which apparently HRC has already owns the domain rights to.
Also got the vibe that the Biden bounce was DOA.
And just the sight of Gore prior to BO made me switch it off until BO was scheduled to appear.
It was an ok speech. Not great but he at least brought out his list of Things I Will Do. The Pre Speech Hype was so great, I don’t see how he could live up to it. It was just the same old political promises I’ve heard for 40 years. (yes, i’m old) I have heard it all before, so I believe none of it. It isn’t what they say; it’s what they do. Unfortunately, Sen. Obama doesn’t have a long resume. So, who knows. The politically active democrats tend to be much more left leaning than the entire party. They make it seem like only New York and L.A. count. They dismiss most of the country as “fly over country”. But it is those middle of the road, middle class who vote. I think Sen. McCain will win rather easily. 80,000 cheering fanatics in a stadium is statistically Zero Percent of the number of voters who will indeed, vote.
I didn’t listen to it, because:
(a) He always says the same thing
(b) He’s a pathological liar, a sociopath
(c) His voice makes me ill
He confuses people, but they agree they’re not confused. He plays on certain guaranteed touchstones, on things that make all people emotional, and asks that these feelings be transferred to him in the form of a vote. For you, for your feeling, for the suffering people.
It’s not so different than politics over the years, and yet it is something new — it’s like marketing has taken over politics and has crossed some sort of a line that’s fatal to the future.
I watched the coverage on MSNBC, and I’m glad I did, because I had NO idea, because I don’t watch American political TV, that we are definitely in a new era: the journalists were openly, shamelessly stumping and shouting and creating new laudatory descriptions not just of the candidate but of the future for America under this candidate. They were not pretending to be objective. They were open supporters, and not hiding is was the whole point of the exercise.
The whole proceeding was like an infomercial with shameless, maudlin appropriations of all the suffering that’s going on in the world.
As a palate-cleanser check out this John McCain ad, which subtly but unmistakably breaks new ground. I’ve never seen perverse, happy understatement and intellectual menace delivered in a political ad. He’s fairly serious, this war-prisoner guy.
The manner and words, but not the accent, are Scots or Irish. Or something in that cultural region.
It gets funnier with each viewing:
http://www.youtube.com/swf/l.swf?video_id=A4KIvRTg6KQ&rel=1&eurl=
The empty rhetoric and cheap shots at McCain did nothing to dispel concerns that Obama is desperately inexperienced and has a demonstrated lack of judgment and analytical skills when challenged by policy questions when he’s deprived of an Axelrod-written speech and a teleprompter he can read it back from.
Other than that, it was disappointing to see the lack of togas worn by the worshipers.
I watched it as well as Hilary’s and Bill’s.
I can only say how inspiring it was and only hope he can raise the USA to a level we all knew before. It had the Martin Luther King reconciliation tones in it that were needed.
It was, in my estimation, as good as that from Bill Eberhart, Ernest and Preston Manning, Tommie Douglas, JFK and Yes Pierre Trudeau.
Re: “I can only say how inspiring it was and only hope he can raise the USA to a level we all knew before”
You mean the Clinton U.S. that started the War on Serbs? that bombed Iraq, Afghanistan and Sudan? that ignored Carter and Brezinskie’s al Qaeda when they attacked the Kenyan embassies, the WTC, etc? that supported the Bosnian and Kosovo Jihads?
The first U.S. president whose inauguration was boycotted by the Supreme Court because of Clinton’s perjury?
That U.S.?
I try to avoid listening to convention speeches from either party.
Frankly, it wasn’t as good as some of his past speaches. And I’d agree with others re: the multiple Bush/McCain references…this will backfire.
He’ll have the support within urban centers, but here in the rural areas (I’m in Ohio), he’ll have a very tough row to hoe (sidenote to cbailey…’tough row to hoe’ is a farming reference). I don’t see him winning — it’s McCain’s to lose.
Bill Stewart: “McCain can’t match Obama’s charisma and optimism.”
Like kelly’s comment, “charisma” and “optimism” are enough to get you elected as POTUS and, once elected, make you an effective POTUS???
I don’t think so.
After Obamessiah’s speech, my husband said, “He’s a good actor.”
And that’s what I thought about his speech: Obama can put on a good show, but I think I saw fleeting moments of panic and a what-the-H*ll-am-I-doing-up-here flickering of the eyes.
A lot is riding on Obama’s politically inexperienced shoulders and I think his run at the presidency is going to collapse under the weight of it all, unless his adulators in the MSM are able to continue to prop him up and fool most of the people all the time.
The list of things he’s going to do read like a Utopian Primer. Just how is going to accomplish all these things with his promised reduction of taxes for 95% of the population? Just how are the other 5% supposed to continue providing jobs for their employees when the Dem government taxes the H*ll out of them?
Then, what was up with the video introducing Obama before his speech? I mean, it jumped from his being a teenager to his glad-handing workers in a factory after he entered politics. What about his career at Harvard? What about his start as a politician? NOTHING. I’m beginning to think that he really does have things to hide about his entering into politics.
Let’s see how Barack Obama does in the ring with John McCain, a grizzled old veteran in every sense of the word. It’s one thing to perform well when you’ve got people hanging on your every word and worshipping you–and I get the feeling Obama knows, deep down, that this is phoney stuff from a gullible public and isn’t quite comfortable with it. And it’s quite another to get out into the real world where you have to deal with present realities and seasoned Republican politicians.
Let the games begin!
LET’S WAIT AND SEE HOW THE DEBATES TURN OUT!!
ME THINKS JOHN MACAIN WILL DO FAR BETTER.
OBAMA DOES STUMBLE AND BUMBLE WITHOUT A SCRIPT.
Watched 30 seconds and had to retreat in nausea…
Kind of reminds me of Being There….
Obama has vowed to save his fellow Americans and the entire world with more gall than humility to be called a true messiah.
What may have lost him a lot of ground was the pontifical rant from the Fat Turd, Al Gore. That was one phony baloney piece of work. There seemed to be some in the crowd not too impressed with Gore’s rhetoric, in fact they looked stunned.
I am still leery about Obama’s wife Michelle.
I tend to believe that she can be somewhat of a lose cannon when she gets going. Pay attention to what she says. what comes out of her mouth could sink hubby’s ambitions. Or should I say her own?
She is the one to watch for. As I have said a previous post, she has an axe to grind. Very dangerous.
The Demowit strategy has become clear:
1. Run a candidate who has never accomplished anything of consequence (thereby avoiding the possibility of specific criticism based on what he HAS done).
2. Have the empty vessel promise everything to everyone at zero cost (thereby creating the impression the voter is about to enter utopia).
Demagoguery has been taken to a new level. Obama is a meta-demagogue, selling dreams and fantasies. He’s the Disneylike Fantasia candidate.