THE MAN IS ANOTHER LINCOLN
I thought as I turned on the TV tonight to watch Obama's half hour special plitical talk that he would probably be as good as usual. I also new that there was a lot of effort put into making this last nation wide appearance a good show. But I also wondered how is he going to top the first speech he made at the convention years ago which introduced him to the American people. And how could he possibly top his I am going to run for President speech in Illinois? And most certaintly he would have a really difficult time making me feel more thrilled to be in his company than I was waiting for three hours for him to appear in Washington Square Park at his brilliantly inspiring New York University speech.
I debated for a few minutes as to whether or not I should bother taping the next thirty minutes. In fact I decided about 20 seconds too late to record it all. But I was smart enough to put the tape on and captured the last 29.97 minutes. And was it worth it.
There were only three other times in my 71 years that I have been as enthralled with the possibility of voting for a politician I really respected. One was John F. Kennedy. One was volunteering to help Mark Lane run for Congress. And one was voting for Clinton.
But outdoing them all and certain I am right about my positive feelings and thoughts is watching and basking in the inspiring glow of Barak Obama along with his beautiful family, and Vice Presidential candidate Joe Biden.
The show was brilliant - a knock out - reflecting the best of him. Remarkably restrained, sensitive, even keeled, intelligent, comprehensive, authentic, decent, totally without guile. A remarkable piece of statesmanship.
I have been bitter and angry for a long while about the sorry state of affairs this country unjder the so called leadership of Bush and Cheney. I can empthasize with those who have and are cynical about all those "politicians" one as bad as the other. Get real, it is said, they are all equally bad. They will say anything to get elected. In general I agree. But I also know that when a person is truly honest, has integrity therefore is trustworthy, then that person says what he means, and means what he says.
I feel I could go on and on and on and indeed am aware that I am making a leap of faith yet to be backed up by consistent good works if Obama is - as I expect him to be - elected next week.
But I would be absolutely amazed if my obviously strong positive feelings are wrong. And right this minute I am truly proud to be an American citizen and am looking forward to getting to the polls to be the number one voter casting my vote for the Cemocratic candidates.
God Bless America! God bless the World!
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I am sort of on the fence about the whole concept- that's partly because I don't think I could have survived a half hour infomercial for McCain.....
He has Class...
He has Wisdom...
He has a Clear Vision and Thinking...
He has Steel...
He has a Plan...
America needs this Presidency.
McCain was just quoted as saying "Race will not have an effect in this election" ...
Since everything McCain has been saying has been the Opposite of Reality...
... What exactly Is McCain saying???
Peace
I find that difficult to believe, because the word would have been affect, not effect, and the quotes would have been after the ellipsis.
Please cite your source.
I like the way he keeps his cool under stress, and rolls with the blows, name-calling and lies aimed at him. I have confidence that when he is studying a problem he will listen to the views of other informed people no matter what their politics. He is fair and reasonable.
Effect is the noun
"having an effect..."
affect is the verb
"how will this affect the race..."
affect can be a noun if it refers to one's facial appearance...
"The effect of running behind has affected McCain's mental state giving him the affect of one who is far far out of touch with reality..."
was there a point to what ever it was that you said?
;)
Peace
Brava, Obama!
:)
It's all over the news... (if you bother to open your eyes: look and think) ...
He said it on Larry King (when he finally decided to show up for an interview with him)
"What a Putz!!!" [if your looking for that quote... it was mine :) ]
This one says it nicely too:
"The effect of running behind has affected McCain's mental state giving him the affect of one who is far far out of touch with reality..." - David J. Evans
McCain is stoking racial divides...
I've witnessed the effects of McCain & Palin's efforts myself at my daughter's school...
It's sad...
It's pathetic...
It was very well done!
It is amazing how he inspires Hope!
Something so very much needed in the Nation right now.
We truly do have a choice of Hope over Fear.
Hope is such an important source of energy that helps inspire us to unleash our Potential.
We are so beaten down by these past eight years of lies and sham and deceit and disgrace.
McCain Palin is such a drain on the American psyche. Fear and lies and deceit. Just so very tired of it!
Obama is the one to lead this nation into the 21st Century, the way we already should have been lead eight years ago.
I was concerned about the spot. It seemed a risk.
He did so very well. Nicely done!
"Obama's 30-minute primetime infomercial was seen by 33.6 million viewers across seven networks -- including CBS, NBC, Fox, Univision, MSNBC, BET and TV One.
That's 70% more people than watched the conclusion of the World Series last night on Fox (19.8 million)."
I thought it was a smart and strategic move. It was also very well done. No negativity, laid out his plan and how he would try to accomplish it. He stood tall, spoke well and many other respected people also had times where they could speak about him. And I only saw the last 20 minutes.
I already voted for him and ON PAPER! I live in Texas and many of the polling places only have computer voting with no paper back up so I was tickeled to have the choice and to be able to have it on paper.
David,...her school? really? how sad is that? I remember in 2000 before I lived next to you, that my kids principal took a day off work to be in Austin in hopes of seeing W elected and was out there all night waiting and so disappointed. But other than that one incident no one else or herself ever brought up politics and you know what that town was and is like. I too was disappointed for the next 8 years.
I heard that quote on NPR more than once if you need a source.
Oh have you and your family figured out an exit plan in case Palin is put in office? We semi-jokingly have batted some places around.
Min and I were shocked and set the record straight.
It was at her Fall Carnival night, and the one incident was a group of kids razing each other the way they do, but using the intimations and wrong suggestions put out there by the McCain campaign.
That event did not involve the school directly... was not 'sanctioned' by the school...
A second incident (actually the first we noticed of the night) did involve the school itself (most likely a teacher & parents via the student)...
I spoke with the Principal and she was VERY happy that I brought it to her attention.
We are proud of her school and we continue to be.
Speaking of schools, it turns out that the McCain campaign bused about 4000 kids to one of his rallies in Desperation, Ohio (oh... I mean in Defiance, Ohio). That is 4000 of the estimated 6000 that attended the rally. Some parents tried to protest that the school district wanted to use their children that way.
Sad... very sad...
Regarding Sue, I'm thinkin' there's not much depth or worth there to spend much time with her...
Regarding the sad occurrence should a contingency plan be needed... we would approach it by steps... Maybe Canada first... I'd like to end up south and watery... Holland would be nice for a while...
It would be like the Brown Barbaloots leaving their Barbaloot forests ... or the Swammy Swans .... or the Humming Fish leaving their ponds...
except for maybe one word.... "Unless" ...
I believe in Hope... Not Fear...
Boy, that's going out a limb . . .
" ... Not Fear"
Well, I can assure, fear exists too.
Producer of the documentary is Davis Guggenheim, director and producer of an "An Inconvenient Truth" with Al Gore, which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. True to form, Guggenheim recorded some great personal stories, and the production values were outstanding.
Guggenheim also directed Barack Obama's biographical film, "A Mother's Promise," which aired during the 2008 Democratic National Convention. His father before him was the campaign documentarian for Robert F. Kennedy.
As you suggest, Sen. Obama shares many of the qualities of some of our greatest presidents --Abraham Lincoln is one of them. I also see a pragmatic Robert F. Kennedy in him. Clearly, Ted and Carolyn Kennedy see it too.
Guggenheim now serves on the Board of Directors of TEACH FOR AMERICA, the a non-profit organization that recruits and trains college graduates to teach in urban and rural schools across America.
These are good people, all of them.
LOL
BOO!!! ;)
Happy Halloween!!!
LOL
Carla,
Well said!!!
In the meantime, I'm happy that you've posted your review of it. Now I can't wait to see it, and I'm SURE it will just make me that more anxious to vote and get this country on the right track! I have NEVER been so enthused about a Presidential election.
Your calling a campaign mistake a reflection of a lack of Substance? LOL! Maybe we should take a look at Biden's gaffs and say Obama is not qualified to be President because he couldn't control his vice presidential running mates mouth?
BTW,
Here's the Substance of your guy;
"OBAMA: "The Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth and sort of more basic issues of political and economic justice in this society. And to that extent, as radical I think as people tried to characterize the Warren court, it wasn't that radical. It didn't break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the Founding Fathers and the Constitution."
The whole re-distribution of wealth thing is more Republican Shim Sham Deceit...
Something to scare people with... to pull the old strings woven and tied during the cold war days... when there was truly disturbing dictators in Russia... Those strings didn't disappear with the death of those dictators (dictators with thinking and tactics very much taken up by the Republicans and the Bush Administration of the Past eight plus years)...
They are vestigial strings that are there to be pulled when the Republicans want to scare people away from "non-republicans" ...
Though the very thing that the Republicans try to drum and beat up fear about (ie., Obama) has nothing to do with where those 'Vestigial Strings' were attached (despotic communism), it doesn't matter to them, they just pull and tug at those strings for the life of them jerking for some response...
Anyone who has spent anytime considering the substance of Obama's economic plans knows it has nothing to do with "ooky spoooky 'redistributionist' socialism" any more than McCain's plans (what little he has revealed or explained of them), Bush II's economics (which has turned out Disastrous for this nation), Clinton's economics (under which this nation did quite well), Bush I's economics (Oy!!!), Reagan's economics, etc. etc. etc. ... Kennedy's, ... F.D.R's, ... Teddy Roosevelt's (who was the first to propose social insurance, the fore runner of social security)...
Anyone with any substance knows that it's a matter of who the wealth is being re-distributed to...
LOL
HOLLY SHHHHHHMOOLLLy!!!!
But the Pathetic Republicans are desperate!!! LOL !!! They decide to Pull just the right strings to TRY to stoke Fears and Spook people !!!!
HOLLY SHHHHHMOLLLY!!!! that's pathetic!!!!
(this "comment" thing is just not adequate enough to relay the amount of sad humor wrapped up in all this shim sham hoooey)
As for substance ... !!! (the ridiculousness of this also cannot be contained within these orange speech bubbles) ...
joe the plumber (who is not in actuality a 'legal' and licensed plumber) ... "joe the plumber" is SUBSTANCE?!?!?!?! BBBBBWWWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LOL...
McCain saying "I know how to stop al Qaeda!!! I know how to do it!!! I will do it!!!" ... That's substance????
LOL
McCain saying "I'm suspending my campaign to go to D.C. (but not really suspend my campaign and not really go there 'right away') to help with the crisis (but not really help ... more really to foil the efforts of those already there)!!" That is substance!!!
LOL!!!
Anyone not seeing the substance of Obama has not really watched or listened to the Man...
Oh my ...
The Republican Shim Sham Deceit is just Plain Flim Flam Pathetic!!!
Peace...
;)
We truly do have the opportunity to live by Hope not Fear
Consider:
Obama's economic plan has been public for months...
His plan has been available for review and comment for some time...
The McCain campaign raised no issue, made no mention of "spooky socialist tendencies" until after the last Presidential Debate...
And only mentioned the words "spread the wealth" for the first time at that last debate...
Seizing and pouncing on three words Obama used during a more substantive explanation of his plan (taken out of context as in: "spread the wealth among the middle class where it is needed rather than among the top elite tiers of economic wealth as Bush did and McCain favors"...
McCain (the Campaign) only CHOSE to raise the issue and pounce on this "socialist" idea after a fellow named "Joe the Plumber" (who was not really a plumber) spoke with Obama several days before the debate...
eh....
errrr....
SO: "Joe the Plumber" raised the "Great Concern" of "Socialist Tendencies" months after Obama's plan has been available to the public, while the McCain Campaign remained oblivious to this "Great Concern" until the fellow "Joe the Plumber" brought it to their attention.... after which it became some "Serious Concern" ...
"Joe the Plumber" brought this issue to the attention of the McCain Campaign and the RNC!?!?!?!?!
And the McCain Campaign and the RNC have taken this campaign advice from ... a plumber who is not really a "real" plumber and have made it a Center Piece of their Campaign!?!?!?!!?
(no wonder McCain has taken up with "Joe the Plumber" so much ... he must really owe him a lot for pointing this "Great Danger" out to the Republicans!!!! (and "real" America (wink wink))...
So let's review....
>Obama has his economic plan out for how long? At least several Months...
>Months after the economic plan has been available to the public, a plumber, but not a real 'legal' plumber, realizes that Obama is a "socialist" because Obama's plan would not help this plumber's fake economic status or his fake "business" he says he'd like to buy...
>McCain, the Campaign, and the RNC use this plumber's advice as a major plank of their campaign (against Obama... it's not really a campaign for McCain to be president as much as it is a campaign against Obama).
So: Obama's plan has been out there ---> a plumber (unlicensed) talks with Obama about the plan month's later ---> and THEN the McCain Campaign and the RNC "realize" that Obama is a "socialist" !!!!!!!!!!!!!
That's not Pathetic Idiocy?????
It's NUTS!!!!!
You're kidding right gibbs?
In order to have redistribution you have to take it from someone, not taking something from someone indicates no or a lessing of redistribution.
"Some one has got to pay for the programs. Who will it be. Should'nt it be done failrly and reasonably?"
And you and Obama think it should be everyone making more than $250K Right? Oh wait a minute I heard it was now $200K...then Biden said $150K.
Fairly and reasonably? How is requiring one group of citizens to pay a higher percentage than anyone else fair and reasonable?
Whatever works man, the polls are tightening. LOL!
It is natural for there to be a collective reaction to this basic inequality. Who was the Republican who said "You can fool some of the people all the time but you can't fool all of the people all the time."
Well the jig is up. The middle class and the poor class (who aren't even mentioned), and the inappropriately warehoused addicts, and the starving, and the maimed, and the mentally ill, and the uneducated who want better education but can't afford it, and the uninsured who can't afford expensive insurance, and all the rest of those not included in the "special elite" class are going to rise up and collectively yell ENOUGH! We want to be heard. We want to be included.
How is that gibbs? Because they didn't get taxed enough for you?
And there ain't no jig to be up, You're just another redistributionalist supporting class warfare, hollering kill the rich and take their money.
But it doesn't matter gibbs, you've shown your ignorance and delusion with your thinking that to NOT tax people more than others is a redistribution of wealth.
BDL gibbs BDL.
Sounds like Dan is countin' on Hope there... ;)
hmmmmm
Dan is highly Taxing Gibbs... I'd say he's a socialist! ;)
How's Arizona goin' ????
LOL
Peace...
["whatever works" ??? Indeed! I'm highly concerned about the voting machines in key and vital precincts and Republican block the vote efforts... "whatever works" indeed!!!]
The rest of us already had our minds made up, and weren't going to be swayed by this infomercial, which they already knew as well.
Good going to Obama, and Guggenheim, and
THAT is the way you run a campaign --
with focus
deliberation
proper and careful planning
proper, useful tools
employing the right people
objectives and a goal
effective deliverance
Foreshadowings of how Obama shall run this country, and I'm loving it already.
Just because he can run a campaign......(Oh wait a minute it was his campaign manager doing that) Nuff said.
You can argue about policy, but you cannot seriously argue the man doesn't have substance. Sure, there is soaring rhetoric and all that. But behind that is a man who thinks.
Sorry gibbs, but when you leave yourself wide open.
"Sounds like Dan is countin' on Hope there" I don't mind hope, with the polls I'd say both sides are relying on a bit of hope.
"Dan is highly Taxing Gibbs... I'd say he's a socialist! ;)"
:-)
"I'm highly concerned about the voting machines in key and vital precincts and Republican block the vote efforts."
Well Dave,
I'd support the prosecution of any law violation found, would you say the same thing concerning ACORN?
Of course!!! I support any prosecution of Election Fraud!!!
I believe Obama and his campaign do too!
LOL....
ACORN.... BOO!!! LOL
Hey!
Joe!
Where are you Joe????
Hey Plumber Guy... vital part of this McCain Campaign.... Where are you???
Ahhhh well... we're ALL Berliner's now!!! I mean... Plumbers now.... my Fellow Prisoners... I mean Republicans... ;)
LOL
And how dare Obama associate with that Palestinian Professor, Rashid Khalidi, that McCain gave a $448873 grant to.... oooooooooooooooh how dare him!!!
LOL!!!!!
BOO!!!!!
Pathetic....
I prefer to live by inspiration and hope in everyday life,
Rather than be cowed by Fear and Erratic Nonsense, stirring mindless strife,
We truly have the opportunity to choose hope and substance over fear and smear...
We truly do...
It's our choice... every one of us... every last one...
Hope over fear...
The 21st century is here...
Peace...
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