Obama’s convention speech
Writing by abuhatem on Friday, 29 of August , 2008 at 11:49 pm
I personally thought it was brilliant, Obama went head-on with McCain and unlike Kerry didn’t shy away from his positions or excessively flip-flop. Obama, to put it simply, was brave. He wasn’t afraid of McCain, he hit him head on so much so that McCain’s people didn’t know how to respond. Yet I did not like the Greek columns and 80,000 people, like Berlin it established the whole “cult of personality” image. Rhetorical orators usually can easily build a cult following and support. Woe to those who actually believed his call for statism and distrust of the market which is so easy to accomplish when people are disaffected (80% believe we are on the wrong track). I hear FDR’s horrendous New Deal all over again.Buchanan thought he beat Kennedy last night on MSNBC. This is how you know it must have been a good speech, if Pat Buchanan, the most right-wing guy on TV, is praising it:
“I stand with Obama! It was a genuinely outstanding speech, it was magnificent. I saw Cuomo’s speech, I saw Kennedy in ‘80, I even saw Douglas MacArthur, I saw MLK; this is the greatest convention speech and probably the most important because unlike Cuomo and the others, this was an acceptance speech, this came out of the heart of America, and he went right at the heart of America. This wasn’t a liberal speech at all. This is a deeply, deeply centrist speech. It had wit, it had humor, and when he used the needle on McCain, he stuck it into McCain and it was funny. It was Kennedy’s speech in ‘80. I laughed with Kennedy when he was needling Ronald Reagan.”
Here are Buchanan’s comments on video:
Category: American Politics
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