The Surrender monkey loved the speech, because it basically flipped off anyone who wanted some details. And, if you watched it, you heard the word change. But, not so much what it meant. Charles Babington of the AP (who Keith Olbermann tore into during a normal rant)
Barack Obama, whose campaign theme is “change we can believe in,” promised Thursday to “spell out exactly what that change would mean.”
But instead of dwelling on specifics, he laced the crowning speech of his long campaign with the type of rhetorical flourishes that Republicans mock and the attacks on John McCain that Democrats cheer. The country saw a candidate confident in his existing campaign formula: tie McCain tightly to President Bush, and remind voters why they are unhappy with the incumbent.
Same ole Mr. Empty Suit.
Some of his comments about McCain were unusually sharp. “I’ve got news for you, John McCain,” Obama said, defying anyone to challenge his patriotism. “We all put our country first.”
Perhaps he should have checked the garbage from the DNC first.
Allies such as Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano will doubtlessly defend his approach. A few hours before the speech, she said: “What he should not do is what he will be criticized for not doing: Give a detailed policy speech. This is not the place for that.”
True. But, since his campaign has pretty much been devoid of more then soundbites of policy, it would have been nice to hear (in my case, read the speech) something a bit more. But, hey, good news, Barry did say we all suck
“America, we are better than these last eight years,†he said. “We are a better country than this.â€
The typical Liberal line that America is just not a good place. But, it could be fixed if we just raised taxes and let the government spend and give more money to people who did not earn it. Unless couch sitting is now a job in Liberal World. Plus, don’t forget abortions. If we could just extend the ability out to the 2nd year of life, everything would be fine.
Out to the Wall Street Journal, which was not impressed
Americans last night got their closest look yet at Barack Obama, the shooting star bidding to be our next President. His speech before 85,000 at Invesco Field was as much coronation as nomination. Yet for someone who is so close to being the most powerful man in the world, the remarkable fact is that Americans still know very little about either his political philosophy or what he wants to accomplish.
Personally, I do not want a rock star for president. I want someone who is more interested in enabling the citizens to move higher and be their best, not someone who will tell us how to live our lives, then codify it in law. As far as not knowing Barry? For those who understand his record and what he wants to do, is it any wonder he doesn’t want people to know the truth?
Martin Luther King Jr. and Frederick Douglass would have viewed Mr. Obama’s success as vindication both of their struggles and their faith in America’s promise. And while we have no polls to prove it, our guess is that more than a few white Americans would welcome an Obama victory in November in part as a way to put the battles over racial grievance and preference further into the background of American public life.
And then they both would have sat back and thought “hmm. This is a guy who is attempting to inflame racial tensions, and using racism as a crutch. He is part of a party that puts people of all races, creeds, and nationalities in a box, judging them by the color of their skin, not the content of their character.”
A similar disconnect applies to his agenda, which is nothing if not ambitious. Most conspicuously, he is proposing a steeper tax increase than any recent candidate, yet he is selling it as a net tax cut. He justifies this by asserting that his eight “refundable” tax credit proposals for people who pay no income tax are “tax cuts.” But such tax credits are really a government cash transfer from one taxpayer to a nontaxpayer. Mr. Obama is disguising the kind of pure income distribution that Mr. McGovern failed to sell as a $1,000 “Demogrant.” Mr. Obama’s packaging is post-ideological but his package is from the Great Society.
In other words, hold on to your wallets, folks!
