Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 186 Editor's Choice: 14
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Question: To the Awed
[Read the article: Was Obama's speech enough?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If you keep getting awed and inspired I am worried for you cause, look if he gets the nomination, we may lose some of you to "awe strokes". Now if he wins the presidency, there will be massive spontaneous awe combustion all over the country. Mathews will be having leg chills. Olberman will be speechless (awesome).
Enough with the multiple collective inspirational hysteria. Look, there is a team of writers and consultants that write this stuff. It's made to tweak you. It's not like he is Lincoln or someone sitting around with a quill and a candle putting out these speeches. This is an industry.
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@Xrandadu Hutman
[Read the article: Was Obama's speech enough?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]His whole campaign is a story. A tidy little story. A story tested and designed to be sold. An Xanadu, who made you the Jello Sheriff?
I guess when Obama is elected you will run the re-education camps for all of us who are not awed and inspired, or who don't buy the story created by Axelrod.
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@djavier
[Read the article: Was Obama's speech enough?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Wow, till 3:00 am. Awesome, nice bit to the story. Did he use a MacBook?
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@djavier...You are slightly confused
[Read the article: Was Obama's speech enough?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Cynicism, easily confused with skepticism, but no problem. I will just let you focus on your optimism and altruism for humanity, including me.
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@Xrandadu Hutman
[Read the article: Was Obama's speech enough?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A story does not have to be false, you are being literal. A story is a narrative that is controlled by the writer. You get the parts they want you to pay attention to. Axelrod, if you read the NY Times article, expressly says that he has to create the story of Obama and cannot do the conventional campaign, cause Hillary has more experience. These are Axelrod's words. You get the threads from his life you are allowed to hear and that will please you.
Why do you think Obama rarely do press conferences? Oh, he did answer those 8 questions.
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@Xrandadu Hutman
[Read the article: Was Obama's speech enough?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Exactly that.: it's a story, put together, just so. When he was running at the local level, he needed the radical black minister. Now, on the national level, he is not convenient. He had to prove his Christian credentials so he over emphasized his church, now it sort of got away from them.
I am not voting for a story for president, I want someone who has experience. Now go run off on that one, even Axelrod acknowledges Hillary has more experience. There is nothing authentic here for me.
Yes....I don't buy the story. It just does not warm me up, tingle me all around, give me the warm and fuzzies or get me inspired. Sorry Ms. Hutman and others.
Can you cope with that? Or do you need to thump me over the head with your pedantic sophistry?
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[Read the article: Was Obama's speech enough?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Joan has to be polite to you all, but I don't. You have reduced the pleasant letter writing aspect of Salon to an angry screaming Jerry Springer like tv set. You attack...you accuse, you have perverted conversation to some form of thuggery.
Ms. Xrandadu... What is your purpose? To shut everyone up? To enlighten? this is not a discussion board. These are letters, you write a letter, maybe your respond, but you let it go. People have different opinions.
I repeat, Obama is a story line created by Axelrod and company. the speech was an attempt to reinforce the storyline when it started coming apart, reality always has a way of sneaking it's ugly head. No one is transcended. The amazing thing, but how you all believe every bit of it without any skepticism is how good it has worked. Ms. X...now get off your high tooting horse and live people alone.
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Obama speech= Story
[Read the article: Was Obama's speech enough?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]References to the "story" in Obama speech.
1."But it also comes from my own American story."
2."It’s a story that hasn’t made me the most conventional candidate. But it is a story that has seared into my genetic makeup the idea that this nation is more than the sum of its parts – that out of many, we are truly one."
3.Those stories – of survival, and freedom, and hope – became our story, my story; the blood that had spilled was our blood, the tears our tears; until this black church, on this bright day, seemed once more a vessel carrying the story of a people into future generations and into a larger world.
What Axelrod said: The Obama campaign is based on a story. Stories sell in America. You all bought it. These are Axelrod's words:
"Axelrod says that the way to cut through all the noise is to see campaigns as an author might, to understand that you need not just ideas but also a credible and authentic character, a distinct politics rooted in personality"
"For Obama, because of Senator Hillary Clinton’s far-greater experience and establishment backing, this is a particularly essential project. “If we run a conventional campaign and look like a conventional candidacy, we lose,” Axelrod says."
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/01/magazine/01axelrod.t.html?ref=politics
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This is not about Clinton
[Read the article: Was Obama's speech enough?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Ms. X. Like Axelrod said. read what he says. These are not my fabrication. Obama's man knew, that he did not have the goods compared to Hillary, therefore he had to be a story. That was my original comment and all your harping will not change what Axelrod said.