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Barack Obama victory speech in South Carolina


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Here it is. Very inspiring.
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5 responses // Barack Obama victory speech in South Carolina

  • Issue ONE: The Superdelegates can "change" everything. They don't HAVE to vote the primary results. Even after Super Tuesday, no definite candidate will be revealed because of this delegate process. Issue TWO: Has anyone yet gotten any real specifics out of Obama about his proposed policies? The poetry, philosophy, and rhetoric is interesting....but we need more than that to make up our minds.
    barkway
  • My husband and I (in our late fifties) were sitting in front of the boob tube yesterday, watching with utter disgust as the media went on and on with all their garbage about Clinton vs. Obama. "The Clintons are driving all this," I remarked, "and the powerful white Republican male media owners who want her to be the candidate because, even if she wins, she'll be in their pocket."

    My husband turned off the TV. We had been thinking about going out later to early-vote in the Florida Democratic primary, even though we've been stripped of our delegates. I asked him if he wanted to go, and he said "The way things are going, I don't think I'm going to vote at all. It's the same old crap, the same old dirty politics, and nothing's going to change. I thought the Democratic party was better than this." I wondered if Karl Rove was advising the Clintons under cover of darkness, and I said "It's hard not to come to the conclusion that the deck is stacked. Maybe we should go vote for Kucinich even though he's dropped out just to send a signal that we've really, really had it."

    What a difference a day makes! I feel a real resurgence of hope that our voices CAN make a difference and we CAN overcome those forces that are tearing our country apart.

    South Carolina, I believe, is not just a well-deserved win for Obama; it is a clear repudiation of swiftboating and the influence of negative politics. (Those South Carolinians have clearly learned the lessons of Bush vs. McCain in 2000!)

    Now, instead of staying at home and giving up on making a difference, we can all go outside on election day and yell "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore!" In his victory speech last night, Obama spoke truth to power in a powerful and truthful way. He reminded all of us that, no matter what our hopes and dreams and ideas are, before we can do ANYTHING as a nation, we must have a vision of common purpose and come together as a people to make what we want to happen happen. And, yes, it will be hard, but WE can do it.

    If Obama had no ideas or plans of his own, this vision and his ability to inspire and lead and help lift us up into the better angels of our nature would be enough. So we'll be voting on the 29th, and there's no question now of who we will be voting for.
    dkistner
  • http://current.com/items/88826195_fresh_off_his_south_c...
    Caroline Kennedy endorsed Obama in an NY Times editorial yesterday (1/27/08), and her uncle, Senator Ed Kennedy, is expected to announce his endorsement of Obama today.
    Tori
  • Obama is a charismatic guy and a great orator. the way he is running his campaign is brilliant. i like him the most out of the top 3 dems. that being said, i don't trust him, he's a politician. he talks about the staus quo, but that's what he represents to me. he's a democrat which is pretty status quo. his views on Israel and Palestine is pretty much the conventional wisdom he says he's up against. he's in favor of the Peru free trade agreement, invading Pakistan, and thinks that people who make $200,000-$300,000 a year are middle class. the words in his speech don't mean shite to me, because they are only words.
    JasonMorgan
  • All the candidates in both parties sling the term "middle class" around but as far as I can tell, not many of them have defined a dollar amount that classifies the middle class (to them). Of course if you talk to Blue Bloods they will tell you that class has nothing to do with income. It's "your people" and how far back you can trace your roots, and back to Whom specifically....but does anyone here actually KNOW how each of the candidates HAS defined "middle class?" Jason Morgan brings up an interesting point here...
    barkway

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