Speech

I departed from my policy of getting convention news only via Daily Show reruns last night, and watched Obama's big acceptance speech. You can find substantive commentary elsewhere, and endless reams of wankery about whether he did what he "needed" to do, blah, blah, blah.

My main thought watching it was "Boy, it would sure be nice to have a President whose speeches aren't physically painful to listen to." The man sure can deliver a speech.

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I couldn't agree more! Someone with some charisma AND someone who can pronounce words...

By PhilosopherP (not verified) on 29 Aug 2008 #permalink

It was a good speech, and isn't the contrast amazing? While I watched I was wondering if Bush will give a speech at the republican convention.

By my count, he made 26 promises. I wonder how many he'd be able to live up to, if elected.

By Johan Larson (not verified) on 29 Aug 2008 #permalink

Harvard Law School is the Boalt Hall of the East. Are we playing toward Jeffersonian expectations for Obama? Anybody with kids knows the limits of command - and, on a good day, threadable loopholes.

It is incompetent fascists, corporatists, and double-digit IQ christ-besotted jackasses (Manchurian candidate McCain) against bleeding heart Liberals, welfare pimps, Enviro-whiners, feminazis, and Queer Nation (Dark Lord of the Senate). Anything not dripping God and entrenched stupidity can be made to work.

That last sentence excludes McCain's platform.