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Obama's speechifyin'
#8022535 - 02/14/08 01:51 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Here's some excerpts from an editorial I found interesting. In fairness to the author I'm not going to cut and paste the whole thing here, but I will say anyone with any interest in the upcoming election really should read the whole thing. He makes some astute observations.
From http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120295124554366927.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries --
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Hillary Clinton probably didn't watch the stem-winder speech that Barack Obama delivered Tuesday night after cleaning her clock in the Potomac primaries. If not, she should.
It was tiresome.
The speech was classic Obama. Beautifully written and beautifully delivered, the words soaring to the rafters of a Madison, Wis., auditorium filled mostly with 17,000 cheering students. The rookie senator had just come off blowouts of Hillary in Virginia and Maryland.
The senator's charisma and appeal has been undeniable. He is almost insanely eloquent. Still, about halfway into this (very long) speech, the feeling was hard to shake: This is getting hard to listen to. Again and again.
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Listen closely to that Tuesday night Wisconsin speech. Unhinge yourself from the mesmerizing voice. What one hears is a message that is largely negative, illustrated with anecdotes of unremitting bleakness. Heavy with class warfare, it is a speech that could have been delivered by a Democrat in 1968, or even 1928.
Here is the edited version, stripped of the flying surfboard:
"Our road will not be easy . . . the cynics. . . where lobbyists write check after check and Exxon turns record profits . . . That's what happens when lobbyists set the agenda. . . It's a game where trade deals like Nafta ship jobs overseas and force parents to compete with their teenagers to work for minimum wage at Wal-Mart . . . It's a game . . . CEO bonuses . . . while another mother goes without health care for her sick child . . . We can't keep driving a wider and wider gap between the few who are rich and the rest who struggle to keep pace . . . even if they're not rich . . ."
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I am not saying all of this is false. But it is a depressing message to ride all the way to the White House.
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Right after the Wisconsin speech, TV broadcast another -- by victorious John McCain. The contrast with Sen. Obama's is stark. The arc of the McCain speech is upward, positive. Pointedly, he says we are not history's "victims." Barack relentlessly pushes victimology.
Of course Obama embraces victimology. He's a Libbie -- the most liberal senator in Congress. Problem is, In late December, Gallup released a poll in which 84% of respondents said they were satisfied with their own lives. Sooner or later a large chunk of those people are going to realize the whole "Grapes of Wrath" schtick Obama drones on and on about bears no relation to their own lives or to the lives of anyone else they know.
Anyway, it's worth reading the whole article. Click on the link. You know you want to.
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Re: Obama's speechifyin' [Re: Phred]
#8022640 - 02/14/08 02:22 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Here is the edited version, (of Obama's speech) stripped of the flying surfboard:
"Our road will not be easy . . . the cynics. . . where lobbyists write check after check and Exxon turns record profits . . . That's what happens when lobbyists set the agenda. . . It's a game where trade deals like Nafta ship jobs overseas and force parents to compete with their teenagers to work for minimum wage at Wal-Mart . . . It's a game . . . CEO bonuses . . . while another mother goes without health care for her sick child . . . We can't keep driving a wider and wider gap between the few who are rich and the rest who struggle to keep pace . . . even if they're not rich . . ."
Now, I wonder why someone writing for a Corporate / Big Buisness Publication like The Wall Street Journal would be writing negative pieces against Obama??

And isn't speechifyin' sorta like signifyin'?
Seems a bit racist, Phred.
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Re: Obama's speechifyin' [Re: blackegg]
#8022644 - 02/14/08 02:24 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Did you read the editorial?
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Re: Obama's speechifyin' [Re: Phred]
#8022674 - 02/14/08 02:35 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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In the bits of his speech you quoted above he's acknowledging that the state is negative, but that "they're" going to face and work against the negative state. That's a positive message. That aside, you don't get points for sounding sunshine & bouncy. If that's all someone does, they must be failing to address the many negative states that currently exist.
And I didn't read the article beyond what you posted, but if the summary's the same, there's nothing negative to care about here.
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"Our road will not be easy . . . the cynics. . . where lobbyists write check after check and Exxon turns record profits"
break down: the road will not be easy because it is in contrast to the current negative states he goes on to list. Therefore, his road is positive. That he acknowledges the road as difficult, yet choses to stand by it is encouragement and dedication. This is a positive message.
"We can't keep driving a wider and wider gap between the few who are rich and the rest who struggle to keep pace"
break down: we can't keep doing something that's negative - a positive statement.
He identifies negative things, but identifies them as things he opposes. Therefore his message is positive.
I think that the article's writer making note of these things is akin to the line in Anchor Man, "LOUD NOISES!!!," where the content of the loud noises is not recognized or understood.
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Re: Obama's speechifyin' [Re: Disco Cat]
#8022739 - 02/14/08 02:58 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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So you didn't read the editorial. Why am I not surprised?
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Re: Obama's speechifyin' [Re: Phred]
#8022785 - 02/14/08 03:10 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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I don't know, you tell me why you aren't surprised. If you're up to it, maybe explain why you can't do a better job of making a content relevant post while you're at it - if what you posted above in fact fails to make and explain your point. You shouldn't get your panties in a snit over a response which acknowledges: And I didn't read the article beyond what you posted, but if the summary's the same...
Most people wouldn't, you know.
Of course, having now read the article, my previous response was dead on. This article's complaint is about on par with "Che Guevara Flags in Obama's Houston Office" (and no, if it were McCain's volunteer office nobody would give half a rats ass either).
Thanks for the contribution.
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Re: Obama's speechifyin' [Re: blackegg]
#8022809 - 02/14/08 03:16 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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blackegg said:
Now, I wonder why someone writing for a Corporate / Big Buisness Publication like The Wall Street Journal would be writing negative pieces against Obama??

And isn't speechifyin' sorta like signifyin'?
Seems a bit racist, Phred.
saying the wall street journal is written for big buisness and corporate america is like sying the New York times in worthless to anyone who doesn't live in New York, it makes no sense, and makes me think your not familiar with the publication.
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Re: Obama's speechifyin' [Re: johnm214]
#8022810 - 02/14/08 03:18 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Re: Obama's speechifyin' [Re: Cubie]
#8022833 - 02/14/08 03:22 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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hmm, Phred
You spying on me, you sneaky bastard
I clicked on the link agnd get a popup:
"Opening interactive.wsj.com
You have chosen to open interactive.wsj.com from: http://ad.doubleclick.net
Would you like to save this file?"
I'm on to you buster.... 
anyways... reading the article I kinda come to a "so what" conclusion
yeah obama is sometimes depressing, probably more so than mccain, perhaps hillary...
but this would be expected (relative to McCain) given the unpopularity of our current president, and his party.
Of course he'd try to leverage the widely held belief that Bush was bad for this country in at least one major way (Iraq and the corporate favoritism alleged to have occurred w/ contractors and oil companies, the later simply being consequential).
I'd imagine every opponent of a lame duck president would be putting a negative spin on the country's direction, otherwise, why do we need to change parties? This is all the more easy w/ Bush's approval ratings being so low- around 2/3 dissaprove.
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Re: Obama's speechifyin' [Re: Cubie]
#8022845 - 02/14/08 03:24 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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hes got you tracked. theres no escaping now!
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Re: Obama's speechifyin' [Re: Phred]
#8022856 - 02/14/08 03:28 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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-------------------- America's debt problem is a "sign of leadership failure" We have "reckless fiscal policies" America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better Barack Obama
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Re: Obama's speechifyin' [Re: Cubie]
#8022918 - 02/14/08 03:44 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Obama theme song
mindless fools.....
Edited by lonestar2004 (02/14/08 05:12 PM)
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This is bogus, I was at the Obama rally in Madison WI. It was not a negative speech. It points out contrast between his platform and the current republican platform. It was by-enlarge a positive speech. He spoke over and over again, about ways to improve the state of our union. Blazing new paths, and not settling for what is easy. He talked of cooperation between people of all race, economic class, and even political parties.
Saying that Obama is charismatic but nothing else is just another way of pigeon holeing Obama, and framing the debate.
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84% of respondents said they were satisfied with their own lives.
It has been my experience that people can be content even in very bad conditions. Even if things are ok relative to the big picture, isn't progress trying to make things better? Isn't it our job as Americans to make America better even if we are the best country on Earth?
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Re: Obama's speechifyin' [Re: Smackshadow]
#8023278 - 02/14/08 05:04 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Re: Obama's speechifyin' [Re: Smackshadow]
#8023300 - 02/14/08 05:07 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Smackshadow said: Isn't it our job as Americans to make America better even if we are the best country on Earth?
When did that happen? The acronym LOL can not suffice. I just say it because technologically, educationally, governmentally, health-wise, etc. it isn't true by a long stretch.
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Re: Obama's speechifyin' [Re: Disco Cat]
#8023326 - 02/14/08 05:12 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Smackshadow said: Isn't it our job as Americans to make America better even if we are the best country on Earth?
When did that happen? The acronym LOL can not suffice. I just say it because technologically, educationally, governmentally, health-wise, etc. it isn't true by a long stretch.
holy shit i missed that "The acronym LOL can not suffice"!
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Re: Obama's speechifyin' [Re: Cubie]
#8023336 - 02/14/08 05:13 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Ok, meaning?
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Re: Obama's speechifyin' [Re: Disco Cat]
#8023339 - 02/14/08 05:14 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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-------------------- America's debt problem is a "sign of leadership failure" We have "reckless fiscal policies" America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better Barack Obama
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