Barack Obama: Potomac Primary Night

[jefferson_dem]

Run time: 26:26 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxd8x7UGOuo   Posted on YouTube: February 13, 2008 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: February 13, 2008 By DU Member: jefferson_dem Views on DU: 804

 
:patriot:

[boricua79]

1. he spoke so inspirationally

I felt like I was watching JFK and Martin Luther King put together.

i'm so glad he's a candidate in an election I can vote for.

[Apollo11]

2. "The cynics can no longer say that our hope is false"

:kick:

[Sonnenschein]

3. Obama has run a negative campain from the start by

attackin Hillary's supporter as cynics. And you are right, he did steal a few pages from Clintons playbook (hope and change), a few pages from Kennedy's (empty rhetoric), a few pages from Reagan (blind optimisms) and few pages from Karl Rove (twisting and twisting). Obama is a very talented politician.

[Apollo11]

4. I take it you don't like him?

Obama was referring to what Hillary said on live TV last month.

"I think it is clear that what we need is somebody who can deliver change. And we don't need to be raising the false hopes of our country about what can be delivered."

Senator Hillary Clinton, New Hampshire, January 5th, 2008

www.nytimes.com/2008/01/05/us/politics/05text-ddebate.html

[Sonnenschein]

5. Hillary said the right thing. There is nothing cynical about that.

The shit created by Bush is going to hit the fan. But Obama makes appears that he were a super man, while it was actually the Clintons, who have proven that they can bring about change tig time.

I will vote for Obama if he is the nominee. He immpressed me by running a negative and relentless campaign on Hillary, whom I feel sorry for.

[info being]

7. Save such statements until he is elected and *accomplishes something*

And, no, getting elected is not an accomplishment. It is a means to and end. I'm talking about that end.

[southernleftylady]

6. I heard so much about this speech thank you for posting it so I could see it for myself! nt

[angrypoet]

8. I don't get you HRC people

The speech was great but the HRC people appear to be willing to do whatever it takes to trash him and the Party at large to win at any cost.
I've read and watched and heard the most awful things about BHO, you would have thought he was a the repub bastard child of * and The Duck Hunter. I watched CNN do everything but call him names last night as the results were coming in. They did everything they could, in as slight of hand a method as possible, to minimize his wins in VA, MD and DC as they could. In fact, they did all they could to wash out the entire month of Feb., discounting it at every turn. Didn't give the man an ounce of respect at all. You've got the NYT doing hit pieces on him on their FRONT PAGE about if he really did drugs as much as he said he did when he was younger. You've had people digging all the way back to when he was 6 YRS OLD and what kind of school he attended for the love of God!

I would have assumed, that the past issues and the media circus that was WJC's life would make you people a little more sensitive to that but the only thing you care about is a win at any cost. If you win on your own merit, fine. We will never know though, with all the talking into the shoulder about his race and past and the media attack dogs, we may never really know if he would have been the better person for the job or not. He was never given a fair chance.

[Apollo11]

9. That means you - Sonnenschein and info being!

You are the HRC people you've been waiting for.

[jgraz]

10. He's sounding more and more like John Edwards

Maybe if he gets enough of a mandate, he'll have the courage to stick to his progressive ideals. We can only HOPE.