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2008-05-04 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Mike 2008-05-04 08:12|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 The 'first' speech by Obama was a grace saving way for Rev. Wright to 'meld quietly into the background'! Since he didn't accept the 'hint' and thus STFU, Obama had no choice but to excise the 'cancer'!

Posted by smn 2008-05-04 13:50|| 2008-05-04 13:50|| Front Page Top

#2 excise the 'cancer'!

Harsh words for a man who was Obama's pastor and spiritual mentor for a couple decades. The operative word being 'was', apparently.

Any bets on whether Obama dumps his Weatherman friends in the near future?

Posted by SteveS 2008-05-04 14:03|| 2008-05-04 14:03|| Front Page Top

#3 Obama's run for the Presidency may show that he has no friends, only cooperatives and 'ingrates'!

Posted by smn 2008-05-04 14:22|| 2008-05-04 14:22|| Front Page Top

#4 ... apropos the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, that I could no more disown him than I can disown my white grandmother. But last week he did disown him. So, great-speech-wise, its a bit like Churchill promising to fight them on the beaches and never surrender, and then surrendering a month and a half later, and on a beach he decided not to fight on. . . .

It was never a great speech. It was a simulacrum [sic An unreal or vague semblance] of a great speech written to flatter gullible pundits into hailing it as the real deal. It should be required reading in classrooms, said Bob Herbert in the New York Times; it was extraordinary and rhetorical magic, said Joe Klein in Time - which gets closer to the truth: As with most magic, it was merely a trick of redirection. Obama appeared to have made Jeremiah Wright vanish into thin air, but it turned out he was just under the heavily draped table waiting to pop up again. The speech was designed to take a very specific problem the fact that Barack Obama, the Great Uniter, had sat in the pews of a neo-segregationist huckster for 20 years and generalize it into some grand meditation on race in America. Senator Obama looked America in the face and said: Who ya gonna believe? My rhetorical magic or your lyin eyes?

Thats an easy choice for the swooning bobbysoxers of the media. With less impressionable types, such as voters, Senator Obama is having a tougher time. The Philly speech is emblematic of his most pressing problem: the gap indeed, full-sized canyon thats opening up between the rhetorical magic and the reality. Thats the difference between a simulacrum and a genuinely great speech. The gaseous platitudes of hope and change and unity no longer seem to fit the choices of Obamas adult life. Oddly enough, the shrewdest appraisal of the Senators speechifying magic came from Jeremiah Wright himself. Hes a politician, said the Reverend. He says what he has to say as a politician He does what politicians do.

Obama = a Retorical Gas-Bag. [period]

Posted by RD">RD 2008-05-04 14:54|| 2008-05-04 14:54|| Front Page Top

#5 Obama's run for the Presidency may show that he has no friends,

Somewhere floating around in the murky depths of my so-called memory is a saying,

'The President HAS no "friends".

Unable to tag it with a date, place, or time, just a bump in the fog.

Posted by Redneck Jim">Redneck Jim 2008-05-04 17:58|| 2008-05-04 17:58|| Front Page Top

#6 RD, I think you're mistaken. There's an "h" in Rhetorical. Other than that? Good to go.

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-05-04 18:06|| 2008-05-04 18:06|| Front Page Top

#7 RD, I think you're mistaken. There's an "h" in Rhetorical. Other than that? Good to go.

~;) thankee knindily Mr. Frank..

... miy splling leeves luch tode emagination!

Posted by RD">RD 2008-05-04 20:15|| 2008-05-04 20:15|| Front Page Top

#8 :-) I'm a picky asshole

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-05-04 20:18|| 2008-05-04 20:18|| Front Page Top

#9 But you're not a clueless one....

Posted by Pappy 2008-05-04 22:11|| 2008-05-04 22:11|| Front Page Top

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