The pope drinks Orange Fanta Soda. O, ask Bush to look in the Iraq etc., children's empty pantry? No compassion. No understanding. Blind Fool Club Members. Arthur Schopenhauer wrote in,

'Maxims and Counsels' that at any age.... "The fools at various stages spot each other."

Buck1 # One Fool!

He already know it. Bush is too.

The dead also cry from the graves.

Justice.

Maybe the GOPS can spit-shine their wing-tips?

Who cares if your a left-winger, or a right winger?

In the hotel lobby the DC whores have hookers in the closet? wow-wee.

Maybe at the funeral, bucky1, can have a commencement well-wish? bucky1 is empty. Why?Overloaded with pride, vanity, pugnaciousness, and you are the impossible one. Project. Your hate!

The speech was far and away the most historic, apt, sophisticated, truthful, etc. speech I've ever heard from a would-be president.

Period.

That said, there were a couple of small panders, one of which someone noted was the Israel-radical Islam thing.

The other, though, was the "only in America" could someone like me exist.

That's absurd.

America is not the only place in the world where multi-racialism exists.

Again, just ftw; I don't expect even someone as daring as Obama to start telling us that America's actually not so special as we think it is.

But, I do think speeches like this put us on a course where maybe we can begin to hear even that message in a generation or too.

@ nick

-While reading and listening to this speech, I couldn't help but juxtapose the fact that the current occupant can't even properly pronounce the word "nuclear."-

Yet no previous President, lawfully elected or otherwise, has had as much practice repeating this word.

@ Chris Sinnard

-He is so powerful he turned Sunnis into Shiites-

And back again in 30 seconds flat....with a little help from friends.

@ Retired Military Patriot

-The economy and the war are not in McCain’s favor even if people believe the war is finally headed in a better direction.-

Which they don't. CNN reports that 36% of Americans believe that the war has not been and is 'not worthwhile' and 'hurting the economy'. All correct, of course.

http://tiny.cc/poll832

-And don’t forget the number of new people that are getting into politics and voting in the primaries and general elections.-

There is no doubt that this is to be a record turnout and it's chiefly because of the presence of Senator Obama in this nominating process and hopefully the general election that this is so, IMO. Sure, its also because America wants to punish and demote the GOP but if Obama were not a contender, the motivation to turn out would be somewhat muted compared to the phenomenon we are seeing in the primaries.

I'm late again. Glenn? Yes/No?

Did you get the Potato Shepherd Pie Recipe?

Seriously,

Yes or no?

I suppose the measure of someone's character is the list of things they're willing to tolerate, both good and bad. But I can't honestly imagine any President going to Church every Sunday and listening to someone rail about the "US of KKK-A". Perhaps you can but I think this shows either a political stupidity or moral blindness and indifference to all Americans. You can't very well claim an inclusion that's supposed to heal all wounds and then turn around and silently tolerate someone condemning 80% of Americans who aren't black. We get it, really. Malcolm-X, revolution, de-stroy white boy. We get it. It's not even particularly new or interesting. But it makes for bad Presidential theater.

"His faith in the ability and willingness of Americans to rise above manipulative political tactics seems drastically to understate both the efficacy of such tactics and the deafening amplification they receive from our establishment press . . . "

Not only that, but the fact that he's been more than happy to let the press continuously manipulate the news and smear Hillary Clinton - with his encouragement, even - makes his

call for an "elevated and more noble type of politics" even less likely. If he really wanted to change things, he should have been calling out this kind of crap all along instead of tolerating it so long as its aimed at someone else.

It was a truly great speech, though.

I copied those three paragraphs and posted them in the comments with just a brief intro saying, “These issues were addressed by someone who gave a speech today. Here is what he had to say;”. Then at the end I gave a link to the full speech. The comments stopped for over an hour.

-- BobFred

Tuesday, March 18, 2008 06:25 PM

Bravo! I am sending your full comment to everyone I know, to prove that writing to newspapers and blogs really does have an effect.

If you do it right, that is, as you just proved.

I can't honestly imagine any President going to Church every Sunday and listening to someone rail about the "US of KKK-A".

Good. Let me know when one (or even a presidential candidate) does, m'kay?

... Perhaps you can but I think this shows either a political stupidity or moral blindness and indifference to all Americans.

How so? Just because someone doesn't say, "Thanks for mah voting rights, Massah!"?

... You can't very well claim an inclusion that's supposed to heal all wounds and then turn around and silently tolerate someone condemning 80% of Americans who aren't black.

Look, you nitwit. I can tolerate a lot of sh*te, including eedjits that comment on a blog that I read on even more than a weekly basis, even if they say thinks that simply aren't true....

... We get it, really. Malcolm-X, revolution, de-stroy white boy. We get it....

Sad to say, I think you don't.

... It's not even particularly new or interesting. But it makes for bad Presidential theater.

You're right. The current brouhaha is neither "new [n]or interesting". Which, if you took time to think about it, might help elucidate your thinking. I think you would be well served to listen to Obama's speech from yesterday again (not to mention, reading Glenn's last two posts and the comments).

Cheers,