After Obama’s win tonight he held yet another one of those dramatic speeches. I have watched too many political series and movies, and involuntarily those are my benchmarks. Since movies and series have all the resources to make speeches perfect this comparison is admittedly not fair. Consequently, I usually get disappointed with real speeches. Something almost always goes wrong - it could be an hostile or ignorant audience, there could be stammering, voice problems, lighting, wind, or just plain poor speech writing. Not so with Obama. In speech after speech is he able to keep them almost perfect.
In some way, Obama is just like the britpop bands of the 1990s. Like those bands is Obama recycling old motifs and methods. But somehow is he nevertheless able to come across as he is presenting a new message. It is an impressive feat.
What also adds to the interest in his speeches is that he is adjusting his message depending on what is being discussed at present. This time he brought up the criticism of him being a hopemonger and naive. Like describing good music is it difficult to explain what makes Obama’s speeches great. Anyone interested might want to do a youtube search.
February 10th, 2008 at 4:59 am
According to the demographics, I should be voting for Hillary Clinton: I’m a white, 60-year-old, highly educated woman from the Northeast. But I’m voting for Obama. I’ve waited all my life for a viable woman candidate for the presidency, but this is not the right woman. I want a woman of the highest ability and virtue, who would serve as a glorious role model to all young women. Hillary Clinton is not that woman.
She rode into power with her husband, and together they’ve acquired a long and seriously flawed history of self-serving and secretive financial and political dealings. The most cursory research will prove that true. She started out her political life supporting the racist Barry Goldwater. She is as comfortable with deception and trickery as George Bush. When I hear woman saying, “Oh, but that’s how you get things done in Washington,” I literally cringe.
I am passionately supporting Barack Obama. He can beat the Republicans; she cannot. Obama has attracted Independents and even Republicans to his camp, and in a general election they would vote for him, but not for Clinton. Clinton voted for the war, and has never apologized for it. Obama has spoken out against it from the beginning. Obama brings us hope–and not just that. Take a serious look at his ideas and experience.
Please, I beg of you, Sisters young and old: wait for the right woman. Then we can be proud.
Diane Wald
February 10th, 2008 at 8:28 am
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