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What He Said. That.

August 29th, 2008 · 8 Comments


Out. Of. The. Park.

This is what I mean to say:

Look: I’m biased at this point. I’m one of those people, deeply distressed at what has happened to America, deeply ashamed of my own misjudgments, who has shifted out of my ideological comfort zone because this man seems different to me, and this moment in history seems different to me. I’m not sure we have many more chances to get off the addiction to foreign oil, to prevent a calamitous terrorist attack, to restore constitutional balance in the hurricane of a terror war.
I’ve said it before - months and months ago. I should say it again tonight. This is a remarkable man at a vital moment. America would be crazy to throw this opportunity away. America must not throw this opportunity away.
Know hope.

- Andrew Sullivan

The speech in hi-def. The text.

Pat Buchanan - yes, that Pat Buchanan - being cut off on MSNBC because Richard Nixon’s race-baiting speechwriter and 40-year right-wing bogeyman CAN’T STOP GUSHING ABOUT OBAMA’S SPEECH.

We can’t turn back. America must not turn back.

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8 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Suzy Byrne // Aug 29, 2008 at 9:35 am

    I was laughing at the expression on Rachel Maddow’s face listening to Pat B in love- need to go watch the whole show to see if they had anything to fight about!

  • 2 Gavin // Aug 29, 2008 at 1:56 pm

    Not to mention Kristol on Fox…

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx2WpjiNOXw

  • 3 JC Skinner // Aug 29, 2008 at 5:32 pm

    And then the GOP go and ruin everything by adding Palin to the ticket and stealing all the media thunder.
    With that Veep choice, McCain has I believe just won the election. By now, post-acceptance speech, following 8 years of Dubya, Obama should be about 20 points ahead.
    Instead, he’s barely in front in polls with the Republican convention next week.
    Admit it, Rich. Obamania is over and the Democrats are toast.
    Defeat from jaws of victory, etc…

  • 4 Richard // Aug 29, 2008 at 10:10 pm

    JC Skinner. I have to say, I had some admiration for your observational skill on American politics until your comment.

    Sarah Palin is the least qualified member of a US national ticket since… I’d say Spiro Agnew but actually he was way more qualified. Have a look at the commentary from anybody bar her fellow disbelievers in evolution. Miss Alaska (alternate) is the first presidential appointment of a guy who’s claim to office rests on painting Obama as a celebrity?

    I’m gonna save your comment. And I’m gonna remind you of it…for the rest of your life.

  • 5 JC Skinner // Aug 29, 2008 at 10:42 pm

    Since Barack Obama is the phrase you stuttered over, Rich!
    Unlike Obama, unlike Mr ‘Washington Experience’ Biden, unlike John McCain, Sarah Palin has the benefit of actual governance under her belt.
    As for your hatchet attempt (weak by your standards, but in fairness, there’s not much to work with, is there?), it’s disingenuous for you to suggest that she heads the corrupt entity when in reality her role was firstly to highlight the corruption and secondly to root it out.
    This is a great pick by McCain, and you know it. This is going to hoover up the Hilary soccer mom votes, going to play well with Middle America, and no matter how hard the Dems try to spin her as some sort of far-right bimbo (lookee, you’ve already tried that yourself, well done for being 20 seconds ahead of the Daily Kos pack) they’re going to find her very difficult to counter.
    Obama doesn’t have a son going to Iraq and neither does genial Joe. They don’t have a disabled kid either. They don’t have gubernatorial experience. They do have some seriously left-wing voting records, which would fly okay in parts of Europe, but comes across as downright communist in the US.
    And in the States, Palin doesn’t come across as the hard conservative she seems to people in Ireland. She comes across as almost centrist.
    The real problem for the Democrats is that Palin on the ticket could rule them out of the Whitehouse for decades.
    I don’t say that with any great relish, but barring some sort of McCain pederasty scandal, this election is over, I believe.

  • 6 Hal // Aug 30, 2008 at 2:17 pm

    But Biden does have a son about to go to Iraq, with the Delaware National Guard. I don’t think this matters, but you ought to get your facts straight.

  • 7 JC Skinner // Aug 30, 2008 at 3:47 pm

    If you mean Delaware’s Attorney-General Beau Biden (no, of course no nepotism) who does some hobby soldiering on the side, then frankly I’ll believe he’s going to Iraq when I see him in Baghdad and not before.
    Biden senior has said he doesn’t want his son to go, and of course Biden Jr can opt out anytime he likes on a number of grounds, not least of which is his role as state A-G.
    I don’t think you’ll be seeing Beau going to Iraq at all, to be frank.
    It’s a bit different for young Palin. He’s a teen in the National Guard full-time. It’s his job. Unless he manages to break a leg between now and next week, he’ll be seeing frontline action.

  • 8 billy // Oct 7, 2008 at 5:39 am

    jc skinner clearly doesn’t know what he is talkin about.

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