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RedState’s Take on Obama’s Speech

The Spectacle Will Be Remembered. The Speech? Not So Much.

By: The Directors (Diary)  |  August 28th, 2008 at 11:13 PM  | 

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This was not an uplifting, unifying, post-partisan speech.  It was a typical Democrat speech, an act of attack to disguise a record thinner than that of any president.  It was an act of religious prayer for the believers, not evangelism to the nonbelievers.  When he declared he would engage in specifics, he continued to offer even more promises without explanation of how or why – just that here was the thing wrong, and in electing him president, that alone would correct the wrong. 

And that is Obama’s greatest failing – for all his fancy promises of hope and change, at his core, he is just like every leftist messiah we have seen before: a man wandering the world convinced of his rightness and purity, with no answers to offer but the collapsed policies of the past. There was nothing new there other than a new face.

Barack Obama claims to offer change. He said several times tonight that John McCain had been in the Senate for so long that . . . well, we don’t really remember. The point was not memorable. What is memorable is that Joe Biden, Barack Obama’s pick for Vice President has been in the Senate longer than John McCain. In fact, Barack Obama attacked John McCain’s support of bankruptcy legislation that Joe Biden sponsored.

Throughout the night we were treated to Barack Obama yelling into the microphone telling us he was an agent of change. Reading his words, we are struck that Barack Obama really is an agent of change. He will change the policies of the last thirty years in favor of the populist, leftist policies advocated by Jimmy Carter.

The shallowness of Barack Obama came out in his speech. It really is all about him, despite what he claimed.

And Barack Obama is an agent of change we cannot afford.

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  • coolcat625

    I’m not sure if I was watching the same speech as you. Obama made some beautiful analogies and electrified the crowd as well as all the pundits. Seems to me that it was extremely uplifting and especially so as the first African-American to be nominated for the presidency by a major party.

    • speciallist

      n/p

      • Kansan

        You’d figure they’d at least be able to correctly identify their own candidate’s race.

        I guess not.

  • gopred

    I have been a Republican all of my adult life, I’m 46 years old and I want change. When you can get a Southern White female who has voted Republican all of her life but says she cant afford it anymore that speaks volumes.

    Frankly I think that there are many who are scared, but change can be a hard thing to deal with. I understand that but nevertheless Obama is reaching out to all people he’s no liberal he’s not conservative but he’s not a liberal . He’s different and some people will have to overcome that. I AM A PROUD REPUBLICAN VOTING FOR OBAMA BECAUSE I LOVE MY COUNTRY SO VERY MUCH AND IT BREAKS MY HEART TO SEE WHAT WE HAVE BECOME WE ARE BETTER THAN THIS. SO MUCH BETTER THAN THIS We send our children to fight a war and bin laden has been on the loose for 8 years, we are at the mercy of Saudi Arabia because we cant get off of oil, China owns so much of out beloved country it makes me so very sad, jobs are being shipped away we aren’t number 1 in the world anymore THIS STINKS BECAUSE AMERICA IS SUPPOSE TO BE SHINNING EXAMPLE FOR THE REST OF THE WORLD …WE ARE IN DEBT we jsut keep spending and spending and hoping our children will pick up the tab as a Republican that ‘s disgraceful!!

    I have learned that fear is a very powerful it can make you vote against your best interest, it can turn you into a coward it can be used to control people but change takes courage the only thing we have to fear is fear itself ! President Eisenhower’s grand daughter understands this also she is a Republican but she like so many Americans are putting OUR COUNTRY BEFORE FEAR!!!!!!!!!

  • streetwise

    You were robbed!

  • devCharles

    You know, as a life long libertarian, I found that hilarious. Obama isn’t a liberal? I have my disagreements with a lot of the conservatives here about a variety of issues, but that’s what we call (conservative or libertarian) dishonest.

    If I were to say to you that I’m for change, would that make it so? Would it necessarily be a good thing? I mean, we all want to change things in the world. I want less taxes, less spending, use our market economy to our advantage, privatize the school system, and take the leash off of energy production. That’s all change.

    What makes him so different? No one has yet explained this to me. His rhetoric is certainly nice. Full of hope and whatnot. The problem is that he’s trying to be all things to all people. Unless you don’t want to tax the people most likely to invest in the economy the most, and you are concerned about protecting the second amendment, and you find social welfare programs something that shouldn’t be expanded. Actually, that sounds like liberalism.

    Now, the fact that the debt and deficit are in such a bad way seems to be your main point of contention, and honestly, I’m right with you. The difference here is that Obama has no feasible plan to change that direction. In fairness, John McCain has a mediocre plan to change it as well because he’s a mediocre conservative, but to say Obama will fix it all by raising taxes (simple microeconomics principle that taxes cause deadweight losses) makes me thing one thing:

    No, he can’t.

    • Fernman

      gopred:

      Sleep on it tonight and by tomorrow afternoon you would have forgotten a large part of what the MESSIAH has said. The only reason you are feeling this way id that you are caught up in the emotions without any facts or data to back up what MESSIAH has said.

      Relax your feeling of confusion and hate shall pass.

      • bclarkj

        I hear these comments coming in to sites like RedState, Rush’s show, etc. It’s as simple as this…NO TRUE Lifelong Republican would seriously consider voting for Obama if they had the common sense to do their homework. “He’s no liberal” shows your lack of homework on his voting record. Please do your homework on his record (what little is there) and you will see what kind of President he would be despite all his empty, vague rhetoric.

  • jdripper

    Sarah Palin has left Juneau on a private jet that was unannounced in her daily log for today.

    • Justin_Case

      are fighting a war that is necessary and one that is keeping us safe. The war is a culmination of years of neglect of numerous terrorist actions. I blame both parties for the past non-response to terrorism. Also, bin-Laden has been stuck in his hidy hole for the past 7 years. Occasional video tapes of him are ineffective.

      We are importing much of our energy today, but in 1995 President Clinton vetoed an energy bill that included drilling in ANWR. Nuclear power was demonized out of existence in this country a generation ago. You want to guess by whom?

      The Chinese-made items in my house are my SKS rifle and about 1,000 rounds of ammunition, and a Cremona upright acoustic bass that has a wonderful sound. These are available to me for a lot less money than comparable items.

      While some jobs are shifting overseas, there still is much investment in this country from overseas. Volkswagen just recently chose Chattanooga as a site for a new plant. Tennessee is a “right to work” state, btw.

      On trade: I love hearing Democrats blame the Republicans for treaties like NAFTA when Al Gore debated Ross Perot in favor of the treaty.

      We are a nation of whiners, just look around you the next time you go to the mall. Observe the material abundance that fails to meet the growing demands of the aforementioned whiners.

      Have you ever visited a third world country? Compare some of the war ravaged, disease ridden countries in the world with the constantly lamented poor in this country. Our “poor” live like kings compared to most people in other parts of the world.

      You did not mention health care in your post. Everyone in this country has access to health care. The problem is some want other people to pay for it. This country has done more to help those unable to pay over the years through Medicaid and state run health care plans like TennCare. One seldom hears a “thank-you”. Instead these plans are overrun with people trying to game the system.

      The fear you live in is a direct result of the old Democrat tactic of downplaying success stories that occur on a daily basis here in the US. It’s really not hard tgo figure out.

      • jdripper

        a small airport outside of Dayton, OH. Oh it was anchorage not Juneau.

        • Zigguratv

          How come everyone he’s ever associated his whole life with is?

          Why does he vote along party lines 96% of the time?

          Why was most of his speech (and most of your post) about attacking republicans as opposed to offering concrete ideas?

          Obama’s a partisan product of the Chicago machine.

          • weave

            I too was impressed by Obama’s speech (the delivery, not so much the details). I’ve never been a fan of President Bush, and agree we desperately need change, but the change we need is to more conservative values. Senator Obama certainly won’t take us there and instead take us further away, but it doesn’t look like Senator McCain will take us there either.

            I’m praying McCain will deliver a knock-out speech next week, but truthfully I’m anticipating being disappointed, as well as being disappointed at his VP pick.

            I have never been more depressed about a Presidential election in my adult life. My choices are either to vote for a Democrat posing as a Republican, or a Socialist posing as a Democrat.

  • Achance

    Using private jets gets Alaska governors UN-elected. In fact, Palin bludgeoned Gov. Murkowski about buying one for the State, though God knows we need one in a state that’s almost 2000 miles border to border.

    Actually, to get to a place like Dayton from Alaska is a bad trip on anything but a charter, so it would be totally justified to take one, but rest assured she’ll catch Hell for it.

    Alaska Airlines has a flight from ANC to O’Hare, six hours, then you can catch something to Dayton, but I don’t know if it runs every day. Otherwise, you get to go to Seattle then to O’Hare or MSP and take something regional. Anyway you do that, it’s a lot of seat and airport time. Anytime you leave here for anyplace east of the Mississippi, you either want to give yourself two days or you want non-stops and really good seats.

  • Aetius728

    It would be a serious mistake. People are especially susceptible to it right now.

    McCain needs to offer his own middle class tax cuts, and explain to people how Obama’s other ideas, such as tax increases for the wealthy will not actually benefit them at all.

  • Strelnikov

    Conspicuous by its lamentable absence was mention of VICTORY in the war against Islamo-Fascism-Terrorism.

    Again the Democrats show their illogical pacifist agenda of spreading defeatism and guilt to the general population.

    “Ending this war in Iraq” is not the same as winning: again, Orwellian language (they think) will win the day, when they explain that “ending” is just as good if not the same as “winning.”

    To the “life-long Republican voting for Obama” – you need to pay much better attention to the man’s background, examine WHAT HE HAS DONE, and ignore the duplicitous rhetoric.

    ‘Tis far far better to have hunted with Dick Cheney, than to have ridden with Ted Kennedy. – from a bumper sticker on an Ohio pick-up truck, which had a rack of rifles.

    • Achance

      with BHO as Prez. As soon as he’s elected, AQ and all the other bad guys in the world will come bringing gifts and pay homage and the World will be as One.

      • Moe_Lane

        1). ObL has been “on the loose” for considerably more than eight years.

        2). We’re not sending “our children” off to war: they’re highly trained, motivated professionals who have not only volunteered to fight for us in general; they have made it clear (through re-enlistment rates) that they understand the importance of what we are doing.

        3). We don’t actually care about a person’s bloodline when assessing his or her opinion.

        4). This is the important one, gopred: Republicans didn’t get scared after 9/11.

        We got mad.

        Hope this helps you in your future trolling career! Somewhere else.

  • AnthonyFransella

    Let’s see, two extremely pro-Obama posts by supposed Republicans this morning, from people who registered on the site at 4AM and 5AM today…yeah, that sounds legit. Obama’s campaign is unravelling from being morphed into too many different shapes.

    • JustLeaveMeAlone

      After replaying Obama’s speech, I’m struck with several things:

      1. Who is the enemy? Why is no one talking about the threat of Islamic fundamentalism? That growing movement is on a collision course with Western Civilization, which we are going to learn the hard way. Just wait until Europe goes Moslem, which will happen sooner rather than later.

      2. The #1 Priority — which needs the modern equivalent of a Manhattan Project — is energy and ending our dependence on foreign oil. We can’t pay for ANY of these high fallutin’ “projects” if we’re borrowing from the Chinese to pay OPEC. At some point, the loan comes due.

      Change? We better get freakin’ serious about our priorities. Someone needs to sell THAT to the American people.

  • JTaylor

    I did’t see a man of hope I saw anger… it was there seething anger.

    Also, change, change, change … without much on what that change is. The Lutz focus group of undecided voters said they didn’t want to hear about change.

    When you tell voters 95% of you will get a tax cut… well considering that almost 50% pay next to nothing in taxes to begin with in the back of everyone’s mind is that they are in the 5%. After all, most people think they are special.

    His attacks on McCain were all wrong, it made Obama look like just another rehash Democrat, and a bit of a thug. Obama already has 90% of the black vote he is missing the white men. Sorry, but an angry black man being nasty to an older white man …. how does this sell? This was not the Obama of 2004. In 2004 he told us about people taking responsibility for their own actions and stop looking to government to solve their problems. Yesterday, he came out as a young black man beating up on an older white guy. You can call it racist, you can call it playing to our fears, but angry on a black guy does not play well to those blue collar Reagan democrats and independents. Nope, those men and women are will continue to cling to their guns and religion.

  • JTaylor

    I did’t see a man of hope I saw anger… it was there seething anger.

    Also, change, change, change … without much on what that change is. The Lutz focus group of undecided voters said they didn’t want to hear about change.

    When you tell voters 95% of you will get a tax cut… well considering that almost 50% pay next to nothing in taxes to begin with in the back of everyone’s mind is that they are in the 5%. After all, most people think they are special.

    His attacks on McCain were all wrong, it made Obama look like just another rehash Democrat, and a bit of a thug. Obama already has 90% of the black vote he is missing the white men. Sorry, but an angry black man being nasty to an older white man …. how does this sell? This was not the Obama of 2004. In 2004 he told us about people taking responsibility for their own actions and stop looking to government to solve their problems. Yesterday, he came out as a young black man beating up on an older white guy. You can call it racist, you can call it playing to our fears, but angry on a black guy does not play well to those blue collar Reagan democrats and independents. Nope, those men and women are will continue to cling to their guns and religion.