Could such a putz be feted for such a crappy speech. YMMV.
I brought a few main things away from this:
“It’s not about me talking about me. It’s about you talking about me talking about you.”
“I support the right of unborn rural Ohio proto-humans to wield handguns when they visit gay hospitals.”
“I staunchly opposed the Iraq War from the start, in the Illinois Senate.”
“After 8 years of Bush and McCain, it’s time for 10 years of me throughout the 57 states.”
“I’m not going to question John McCain’s patriotism, so he shouldn’t question my . . . anything. But if he were a real man, he’d invade Pakistan and hunt bin Laden down in a cave armed only with a Bowie knife, just as I will, if elected.”
“I have a dromedary!”
This kind of backfired:
Barack Obama was Thursday to summon America to join his crusade for change, as the Democratic convention climaxes in a historic echo of Martin Luther King’s” “I have a dream” speech. Forty-five years to the day after the civil rights icon spelled out an electrifying vision of racial equality, Obama will claim his prize as the first-ever black presidential nominee of a major US political party.
I just heard Al Hunt say that it was a “boffo” speech. I’ll have to check the definition of the word again.
Comment by XBradTC on 8/29 @ 3:00 am #
It is a testament to the greatness of our nation that we are so successful even though almost 50% of our population is irredeemably retarded.
Comment by Sdferr on 8/29 @ 3:32 am #
promises,promises,promises,promises,promises,promises,promises
feh.
Comment by eddiebear on 8/29 @ 3:42 am #
Man, is this guy an empty suit or what?
His rise is the ultimate proof of media bias being able to carry a lightweight over the finish line.
Comment by Sdferr on 8/29 @ 3:45 am #
Finnish line, if only.
To the Station, Jeeves.
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Comment by Jake on 8/29 @ 3:49 am #
I distinctly remember Hillary getting dogged for affecting a faux-southern accent during one or two speeches.. Did you catch Obama’s dead on Martin Luther King impression? Echo my ass.. an echo like Phil Hartman echoed Frank Sinatra.. Probably practiced in front of a mirror for a month..
Comment by B Moe on 8/29 @ 4:00 am #
Obama aides have been downplaying expectations: the speech will be a “nuts and bolts” address, said spokesman Josh Earnest.
That is a Hall of Fame sentence, right there.
Comment by my favorite line? on 8/29 @ 4:02 am #
Kennedy was the most recent Democratic president to keep America safe? Ouch. Plus, Bill and Hill won’t be liking that.
Comment by xbradtc on 8/29 @ 4:09 am #
But they aren’t the party of Truman, now are they?
Comment by Bob Reed on 8/29 @ 4:09 am #
I dunno, for me it was kind of…meh..
Same old jive. America in decline, But I know how to fix it…Economy in the tank, but I know how to fix it…The war is evil, AND LOST!…but I know how to fix it…
We all put our country first, Mav…I have a new “Robin Hood” tax plan…Fairness…Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah…
Same old S*&t, different A-Hole…
Comment by Jake on 8/29 @ 4:15 am #
Standard Dem boilerplate preached to the choir.. The True Believers were left all misty eyed and filled with The Spirit… The rest of us non-Obamaniacs were left someplace between mildly entertained and bored.. Nothing’s changed.
Comment by B Moe on 8/29 @ 4:16 am #
“Unlike John McCain, I won’t give tax breaks to companies that take American jobs overseas, I will only give tax breaks to companies that keep jobs here.”
I thought Barry said he stopped sparkin’ the kind bud when he was a kid.
Comment by Jake on 8/29 @ 4:24 am #
“Kennedy was the most recent Democratic president to keep America safe?”
Now don’t go hatin on our real first black president like that.. You cant say Bill didn’t keep us safe from terrorism.. He did call down the shock and awe on that empty terrorist base before calling it a day .. It’ll be a cold day in hell before one of those empty bases ever attacks one of ours again..
I’m sure O! will be every bit as forceful and decisive as Bill…
tw: Georgie ish .. hahahaha.. hardly.
Comment by brian on 8/29 @ 4:25 am #
It is a testament to the greatness of our nation that we are so successful even though almost 50% of our population is irredeemably retarded.
You win the internet.
Comment by Overall on 8/29 @ 4:26 am #
The speech — like Biden’s material — was aimed at the working class voters Hillary tended to get. The Obama campaign probably would have rethought the stadium setting for that appeal, but it was probably too late to dump the stadium.
The historic nature of the occasion, and Obama’s typically good delivery of the speech, may give him a decent bounce with disaffected Democrats and independents who are just starting to pay attention to the election. But the GOP will have their week to sell McCain’s record (more substantive than Obama’s) while making the case that Obama is a tax-and-spend liberal and naive on foreign policy.
Comment by AK on 8/29 @ 5:03 am #
My favorite line has to be Obama’s promise to go to Afghanistan/Pakistan personally to get bin Laden. I assume he’ll be using his Indonesian passport, and going incognito as Barry Dunham-Soetoro.
Comment by serr8d on 8/29 @ 5:16 am #
I still can’t get over that some people think Joe Lieberman could be a correct VP choice for McCain.
There’s an alternate close-by planet they’re living on no one’s told me about yet?
Comment by McGehee on 8/29 @ 6:09 am #
I was watching a rented DVD of a 1982 Doctor Who adventure, so I was slightly more than mildly entertained. Oddly enough, the story involved a transfer of power to what turned out to be something of a Manchurian Candidate. I did not remember that much about it when I rented it; it just happened to be Anthony Ainley’s first appearance as The Master.
Comment by Topsecretk9 on 8/29 @ 6:26 am #
and to think, he’s the first African American ever to be nominated in even any major country ot the Iraq and such as…
Comment by thor on 8/29 @ 6:30 am #
You’re given to exaggeration; Radical right-wingers and their lump don’t make up 50% of our pop.
Comment by Sean M. on 8/29 @ 7:23 am #
The part where he basically dismissed the idea that someone who’s poor can pull themselves up by their bootstraps as a “discredited Republican idea” and suggested that the government should do it for you instead struck me as remarkably tone-deaf. I mean, it’s not like that’s a cherished American ideal going back for generations or anything.
Comment by B Moe on 8/29 @ 11:48 am #
Especially after giving examples all week of everyone in his and Michelles and Joe Bidens and the whole Democrat party doing just that, Sean.
They are just special, I suppose.
Comment by B Moe on 8/29 @ 11:49 am #
There is supposed to be a “family” in 22 somewhere.
Comment by Doug Stewart on 8/29 @ 12:03 pm #
HAHAHAHHAAHHAHAH!
th(O!)r, you crack me up! What with all your insight and 5th grade humor and whatnot.
Tell me, do you do birthday parties/bar mitzvahs? We had Carrot Top lined up for my son’s b-day, but now I’m thinking those dollars might be better spent hauling your rear over.
But if Gallagher returns my call, well… It’s over the metaphorical gunwales for you. Sorry.
Comment by Carin on 8/29 @ 12:13 pm #
I suppose if the American Idol judges were reviewing, Randy and Paula would say “You could read the phone book and it would be good.”
Obama speaks well. It just what he says is nonsense.
That’s why I couldn’t listen to last night’s spectacle.
Comment by Cincinnatus on 8/29 @ 1:11 pm #
Pakistan: I trust Musharraf more then Obama.
Comment by BJTex on 8/29 @ 1:21 pm #
I’m going to spend the day visualizing Obama in camo and vest with M-16 (unloaded) wandering around Waziristan looking for bin Laden like Carmen San Diego. Trailed by 100 foreign policy advisers in suits.
You forgot all the bitter. clingy godbotherers who won’t give up their
arugulaguns. Buncha retards all.tw: sympathize Nixon Wha?????
Comment by Jake on 8/29 @ 1:35 pm #
Sean M.#21 : …poor can pull themselves up by their bootstraps as a “discredited Republican idea†..
Yes, he slammed the discredited Republican idea of lifting oneself out of poverty by the bootstrap right after praising the American belief in hard work and sacrifice as a means of getting ahead.. and all this on top of his the running and recurring theme of entitlement for the least productive, least able portion of our society.. Talk about mixed messages.. Anything you want, it’s in there someplace..
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Comment by Pablo on 8/29 @ 1:45 pm #
They don’t even have boots, Jake! It’s all a cruel, dirty lie.
Did Condi Rice have boots? Hell no, just sensible flats and maybe some tennis shoes. The boots didn’t come until she sold out.
Comment by hey norm on 8/29 @ 2:53 pm #
doh…can’t attack anything he actually said…better make something up. gutter-snipe politics exemplified.
Comment by swells on 8/29 @ 3:02 pm #
Heh! It is really funny to see the reaction from well, reactionaries, to his speech. Just remember, this is the guy that is gonna bury the guttersnipe republicans politically for the next 8 years. And, if he accomplishes 1/3 of what he has said he will accomplish, he will effectively send republicans to the hinterlands of political relevance for a decade after that. Better get your shots in now because you are toast in the long run.
Comment by Long Dong on 8/29 @ 3:04 pm #
Wow, lots of white trash wisdom here!
Comment by Sdferr on 8/29 @ 3:08 pm #
Whatever happened to the received wisdom of not making threats you can’t keep? It’s fuckall days now I guess. They are the ones!
tw: threats rattler……………(Scary. I swear to God I didn’t look first.)
Comment by Mike on 8/29 @ 3:11 pm #
When John McCain was a POW, his job got sent overseas!
Comment by poppa india on 8/29 @ 3:12 pm #
#32 That “if” should be IF. Any hints as to how he’s gonna do all that?
Comment by Kevin on 8/29 @ 3:12 pm #
Wow, I’ve seen some pigheaded stuff on the Internet before, but these comments here pretty much take the award for partisan witch hunting.
The sad thing is if any of you took the time to step outside your partisan eggheads (and it’s obvious you haven’t when you slice and dice individual phrases) then perhaps you would understand that McCain is one of the worst candidates for POTUS to come around in recent history. Noun, verb, POW is all he has along with the mixed messages of honor, straight talk, and a C*NT of a wife.
Comment by Carin on 8/29 @ 3:19 pm #
Ok, who linked this post? We’ve got incoming nonsense.
Comment by Sdferr on 8/29 @ 3:20 pm #
Gee Kevin, thanks for filling us in there. Seems we’ve all been wandering in the wilderness with no clue where to go until you got here! Cheers to you, our saviour.
tw: so northern
Comment by kyle on 8/29 @ 3:28 pm #
Wow. Everyone here is really dumb.
Comment by Mike on 8/29 @ 3:29 pm #
And Sarah Palin is a great choice for VP, because she’s really hot. And she is too the one honest Republican in Alaska.
Comment by Catherine Wright on 8/29 @ 3:30 pm #
As usual, pettiness and immaturity, sneers, ego-gratification–wow, I’m so impressed with you pseudo-intellectuals. After all, it’s all about you–your egotistical headtrips. In the end, Obama is an adult, and certainly more adult than the sociopathic infant you all elected twice, and more of an adult than the “Bomb Iran” septuagenarian who thinks sneer and smear is “lighthearted humor”.
Comment by poppa india on 8/29 @ 3:35 pm #
Everybody grow up! Catherine’s here!
Comment by Rich White Oligarch on 8/29 @ 3:46 pm #
WAH WAH
I WANT TO KEEP MY TAX BREAK
Comment by PaulC on 8/29 @ 4:18 pm #
It is fortunate for Obama, that he is more articulate than you are dense.
Comment by Pablo on 8/29 @ 4:57 pm #
I can’t wait for the debates. And then I can’t wait for the election.
Just look at all the media buzz on the Obama speech? What? Sarah who? Oh.
Nevermind.
tw: moves Khan
KHAN!!!!
Comment by Carin on 8/29 @ 5:26 pm #
Man, these drive-bys are SO BURNING us. It’s embarrassing. #40 really hurt.
Comment by Andrew Sullivan on 8/29 @ 5:35 pm #
Yep, my fault.
Comment by Andrew Sullivan on 8/29 @ 5:37 pm #
…and you wondered why I don’t have comments at my own blog?
Comment by sdferr on 8/29 @ 5:48 pm #
No actually, I don’t wonder at all. Why, should I?
Comment by Carin on 8/29 @ 5:56 pm #
I totally understand, Sully. Your commenters would be really lame.
Comment by Jeff G. on 8/29 @ 6:13 pm #
Funny, but I hardly expected so many Obama supporters (remember, he votes with Dems 96% of the time — BECAUSE OF THE POST-PARTISANNESS) to be coming over from the site of one of the last of the “true conservatives.”
You know, the kind who backs Kerry and Barack Obama.
Color me stunned. Or, you know, described me as stunned of color, if it makes you feel more comfortable.
Comment by BJTex on 8/29 @ 6:28 pm #
Whoa, doggie! Cleanup in aisle Dan!
I love this one:
Comment by Andrew Sullivan on 8/29 @ 6:45 pm #
Jeffrey Goldberg writes that I’m reveling in Jew-baiting smears.
I’m gobsmacked with heartache.
Comment by sdferr on 8/29 @ 6:49 pm #
Gotta be give-away parody, that. Though the Goldberg part is true enough.
Comment by Rick Ellensburg on 8/29 @ 6:56 pm #
sdferr busts me!
Comment by Pablo on 8/29 @ 7:10 pm #
Huh. Sully loves him some Wolcott. Imagine that.
Comment by Rusty on 8/30 @ 1:36 pm #
Comment by Andrew Sullivan on 8/29 @ 5:37 pm #
…and you wondered why I don’t have comments at my own blog?
No. We know why you don’t have comments on your blog.bye.
Comment by Phil on 8/31 @ 6:15 pm #
What a nation of whiners.