2008 Primaries Thread 2: THE QUICKENING

yeah rly. 24 hr moratorium on dick talk starts now xps

ban andwhat for making me able to anticipate his last post verbatim

yeah because we never know what you're gonna say morbs

good job guys!

we need to turn to sexier things, like poll numbers. Daniel, where are you? How's Obama doing this hour?

btw Obama is now officially not a Muslim

we need obama to come in and sort some stuff out on ilx

awesome reasonable Christian dude for the win

http://media.gallup.com/poll/graphs/031808DailyUpdateGraph1.gif

that is like when you listen to those really good records and the left channel crosses over to the right channel and the right channel changes places with the left channel and it sounds like the band just rotated around your head

this graph makes me lol for some reason

Any PA numbers?

DNA. xpost Ed did you shot speach?

we need to turn to sexier things, like poll numbers. Daniel, where are you? How's Obama doing this hour?

Don't know. Mr. Que apparently has me covered upthread.

Offering up this moment's latest poll numbers is my only contribution to society.

I am shotting.

This is what bar conversations were like on the day of the "I Have A Dream" speech.

Tomasky: http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/michael_tomasky/2008/03/imperfect_union.html

ha that graph is funny! oh well...

aren't those always 3 days behind as a rule?

air america is basically replaying the speech now and oh man <3 <3 <3 obama

http://www.simpsoncrazy.com/gallery/screenshots/lists/news_198.jpg

-- omar little, Tuesday, March 18, 2008 2:16 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

this is the best morbius yet

can someone find an mp3 of the speech?

The Root article is really depressing but im reminded that similar-minded articles were written that obama wouldn't get as far as he already has. pessimism is always right only when everyone is overwhelmingly pessimistic. i reject the article's conclusions in the end, not because they aren't well thought out or largely accurate (they are) but because i am genuinely hopeful

what article deej?

The alehouses sounded like this on the day of the Gettysburg Address as well.

The juicebars sounded like this the day Ford pardoned Nixon

XPOST http://www.theroot.com/id/45336

The pardoning wasn't about ideas and ideals.

SAVING US FROM MORE PAIN

"A More Perfect Union" MP3: http://sundaygang.com/obama/2008/03/18/speech.mp3

"We know from the 2004 "Swift Boat" campaign against Senator Kerry that, in this era of multiple media sources, viral attack campaigns are very hard to combat and can be effectively deadly"

BUT unlike 2004 'viral campaigns' now extend beyond the reach of politicians & corporations; cf colberts white house speech, which to be honest this 'event' reminded me of.

Michelle Malkin responds:

Obama’s bottom line: Everyone’s a victim. You’re part of the problem if you keep talking about Jeremiah Wright. Everyone’s churches have crazy demagogues. Schools need more money. Leave illegal aliens alone. Never mind all the black grievance-mongers who have built careers sowing seeds of divisions. Look at all the talk show hosts and conservative commentators! Elect Obama. Fixer of souls.

what a toxic cunt, amirite?

you're so rite.

The right now thinks Obama's fully embraced "blackhood," abandoning his super awesome specialness.

You Obama guys: you never bought this "transcendence" stuff, right? The Obama supporters I've met seem taken with the man's immense gifts, not because he meets a Platonic ideal.

i just like his suits

can you clarify that alfred because i really have no idea what yr talking about

the man's immense gifts

the man's immense .gifs

I think he means the whole narrative of Obama as a "post-race" figure and all that stuff.

which is and always was bullshit but a lot of people ran with it

Obama's success as a death knell to "the race problem" / "if barack can do it why can't you" etc.

who's saying that, exactly?

Every Obama critic I've ever met harps on his "cult's" fascination with his specialness – how he won't "play the game," he'll avoid partisan clichés, etc. But this is totally incorrect. To me he's a superb politician who doesn't appeal to people's fears, which means, of course, that opponents twist this to mean that he fills their head with uplifting banalities.

just because an Obama critic says something about Obama's supporters, it don't make it so.

Not one of the Obama fans I know regard him as "transcending race" or "lifting us" out of partisan politics. The dude seems like the only politician of his generation who hasn't squelched his natural intelligence in the way that Garry Willis once accused Nixon of doing for the sake of victories.

just because an Obama critic says something about Obama's supporters, it don't make it so.

erm, that's my point! But now that we're on the subject, why are some of you guys supporting him?

Start at the beginning of the thread...

he's got a better u.s. serving/self serving ratio then most pols, let alone those running for president.

he went to my college

I am supporting Obama because his positions and record align more closely to my own beliefs than any other candidate running.