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(innerredneckexposed on
Mar 18, 2008 11:24 PM)
If i can say, as a certified expert on pwnage, that speech pwned.
You know what else pwns? Hillary releasing her First Lady schedules. Can someone say trump card?
Good job to both today.
(odinseye2k on
Mar 18, 2008 11:47 PM)
Yes, indeed. But I think it’s important not just to go in for Obama’s pretty words (pretty though they were). When most Democrats with as much campaign apparatus as Barack would have gone into a corner and wet themselves when a key ally and old friend was attacked by Rush and co., this man went and grabbed the nettle itself.
None of this happy-sappy “America’s a great country and it always will be” jazz. We have struggles with our consciences and our history as we should. But that doesn’t mean we’re bad people - we’re only bad people if we declare that the current state of affairs is indeed right and just when it is not so.
Put that speech up next to anything that has been studied by folks like Dr. Drew and it will certainly measure up.
There’s a difference between pretty and empty words, and a monologue that displays a deep understanding and long study of a given problem. Barack just reminded me yet again of what it was like to have a President that had a mind capable of running this country and seeing a way to the future.
In four years, no Democrat should be allowed to open their mouth without being schooled by this brilliant fellow.
(Smitty on
Mar 18, 2008 11:49 PM)
even better…John Murtha endorsed Hillary.
http://www.tribune-democrat.com/local/local_story_078184832.html?keyword=topstory
(odinseye2k on
Mar 19, 2008 12:04 AM)
Oh yeah … what the hell ever happened to that guy, anyways?
I haven’t heard a peep from him since the middle of last year.
(innerredneckexposed on
Mar 19, 2008 12:22 AM)
he went back to being a blue dog or in otherwords unimportant.
(Smitty on
Mar 19, 2008 12:27 AM)
not too unimportant to lots of veteran folks.
(innerredneckexposed on
Mar 19, 2008 12:29 AM)
im just commenting on the high regard held for blue dogs.
here is another thing, just to compare 08 with 04, do we think Kerry would have responded to a similar situation with anything other than pansy ass elitist bull shit? the correct answer is no he didn’t and wouldn’t
(sndeak on
Mar 19, 2008 9:05 AM)
At least Murtha has admitted his war vote was wrong.
Murtha’s been busy getting more earmarks. It’s funny how a blue dog became the progressive darling when he started to question the war. He got pounded by some of the same people as the biggest supporter of the military industrial complex. Which he still is, btw.
(sndeak on
Mar 19, 2008 9:13 AM)
On the Obama speech…. It took real stones for him to do it the way he did.
He looked, shall we say, Presidential up there. I’ve never wavered in my support of him and this just reaffirmed my commitment.
Huckabee seems to get it…
HUCKABEE: [Obama] made the point, and I think it’s a valid one, that you can’t hold the candidate responsible for everything that people around him may say or do. You just can’t. Whether it’s me, whether it’s Obama…anybody else. But he did distance himself from the very vitriolic statements.
And one other thing I think we’ve gotta remember. As easy as it is for those of us who are white, to look back and say “That’s a terrible statement!”…I grew up in a very segregated south. And I think that you have to cut some slack — and I’m gonna be probably the only Conservative in America who’s gonna say something like this, but I’m just tellin’ you — we’ve gotta cut some slack to people who grew up being called names, being told “you have to sit in the balcony when you go to the movie. You have to go to the back door to go into the restaurant. And you can’t sit out there with everyone else. There’s a separate waiting room in the doctor’s office. Here’s where you sit on the bus…” And you know what? Sometimes people do have a chip on their shoulder and resentment. And you have to just say, I probably would too. I probably would too. In fact, I may have had more of a chip on my shoulder had it been me.
(odinseye2k on
Mar 19, 2008 9:14 AM)
Yeah - I really can’t see any of the Democratic candidates since perhaps Bill Clinton actually charging into an area where they are being slandered.
If every Democrat learns how to fight the “It’s okay if you’re a Republican” crowd in this way, we’ll be alright.
After all, how many times have the hateful comments of Falwell, Robertson, Haggee or others been so thoroughly analyzed?
Falwell blamed 9/11 on the US because of gays. Wright blamed it on the US because we fucked with the world and it finally wanted to fuck back. It’s hard to dismiss that out of hand unless you’re a wealthy Alpharetta prick that hasn’t looked outside your own SUV for years. It might be possible to argue with it logically.
Meanwhile, Falwells comments - a connection between gays, God’s wrath and a terrorist strike shouldn’t even be entertained.
But, I think Obama got it right. Wright’s anger and bitterness has a real basis and that shouldn’t be dismissed. It also shouldn’t entirely be dismissed when some random country boy (who never was a racist) looks at him funny and asks “what the hell does this have to do with me?”
Yeah, he kicked Kerry’s ass on that one.
(PaulaG on
Mar 19, 2008 11:03 AM)
Having spent the better part of this news cycle on a morphine drip, the closest I can come to intelligent commentary on this is to point you to this link: http://gawker.com/369639/media-still-baffled-by-non+pandering-race-speech
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