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inthysite -> Obama's Victory Speech (6/4/2008 10:48:33 AM)
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Yep, here it is, yet another thread about Obama.[:)]
After his speech all the pundits were raving at how great a speech it was, everyone in the audience was cheering, chanting, clapping. But then I was reminded about how everyone in Trinity church would clap, chant and applaud at the nonsense coming out of there. So I decided to actually read the speech he gave and see what it was he was saying. Here is what I came up with.
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They are Democrats from Des Moines and independents from Concord and, yes, some Republicans from rural Nevada. And we've got young people all across this country who have never had a reason to participate until now.
So the youth have never had any reason to participate in any election prior to Obama??
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So this will not be easy. Make no mistake about what we're up against. We're up against the belief that it's all right for lobbyists to dominate our government, that they are just part of the system in Washington,
But we know that the undue influence of lobbyists is part of the problem and this election is our chance to say that we are not going to let them stand in our way anymore.
Hey great, no more lobbyists -- Good Luck
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We're up against the conventional thinking that says your ability to lead as president comes from longevity in Washington or proximity to the White House. But we know that real leadership is about candor and judgment and the ability to rally Americans from all walks of life around a common purpose, a higher purpose.
Okay, for all of you who continue to say that this election should only be about the issues, Barack himself tells us different. He states "that real leadership is about candor and judgment" and his judgment has been way off. This is exactly why we pick apart everything he says, everything he does, everyone he knows. This is why I'm posting this thread, to show that what he says contradicts what he does. You will know them by their fruits!
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We're up against decades of bitter partisanship that cause politicians to demonize their opponents instead of coming together to make college affordable or energy cleaner. It's the kind of partisanship where you're not even allowed to say that a Republican had an idea, even if it's one you never agreed with.
He promotes bipartisanship and bringing together the parties and then gives a dig at Hillary. Now that's how you give a speech!
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We're up against the idea that it's acceptable to say anything and do anything to win an election. But we know that this is exactly what's wrong with our politics. This is why people don't believe what their leaders say anymore. This is why they tune out. And this election is our chance to give the American people a reason to believe again.
You mean like joining a church for political expediency, saying you cannot denounce that church any more than you could denounce the black race but then denouncing that church, denouncing your typical white grandmother, leaving your church of 20 years for political expediency.
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It's the politics that uses religion as a wedge and patriotism as a bludgeon, a politics that tells us that we have to think, act and even vote within the confines of the categories that supposedly define us,
He is the most liberal senator we've seen in years and has voted down party line a majority of the time
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the assumption that young people are apathetic, the assumption that Republicans won't cross over, the assumption that the wealthy care nothing for the poor and that the poor don't vote,
The assumption that people are bitter, clinging to their guns and religion
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We are here tonight to say that that is not the America we believe in.
I did not travel around this state over the last year and see a white South Carolina or a black South Carolina. I saw South Carolina.
I saw crumbling schools that are stealing the future of black children and white children alike. I saw shuttered mills and homes for sale that once belonged to Americans from all walks of life and men and women of every color and creed who serve together and fight together and bleed together under the same proud flag.
Then why does he quote the Rev. Wright in his book? ""White man's Greed versus a World in Need" Why did he sit in the pew for 20 years listening to the racist hatred spewed by their leaders? Why then when he denounced his church did he do it because his membership was hindering their worship by placing them in the spotlight, rather than for the racist comments made and basically calling Hillary a white supremest?
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There are those who will continue to tell us that we can't do this, that we can't have what we're looking for, that we can't have what we want, that we're peddling false hopes. But here is what I know. I know that when people say we can't overcome all the big money and influence in Washington, I think of that elderly woman who sent me a contribution the other day, an envelope that had a money order for $3.01 along with a verse of scripture tucked inside the envelope. So don't tell us change isn't possible. That woman knows change is possible.
Well shoot, if sending a small donation will get the candidate everything they want then heck, I'm sending $1.58 to John McCain!
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When I hear that we'll never overcome the racial divide in our politics, I think about that Republican woman who used to work for Strom Thurmond, who is now devoted to educating inner city-children and who went out into the streets of South Carolina and knocked on doors for this campaign. Don't tell me we can't change.
Ah, the race card. I was beginning to wonder if I would see it. Let's bring out ol' Strom Thurmond again. He can overlook the racism in his church but it's amazing that a woman who worked for Strom Thurmond could actually work with inner city kids.
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