What a remarkable Obama speech.

This is remarkable. Look at that crazy crowd

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I'm too cynical and too old.

as long as others feel it and put him in the white house and he can put together an admin that will do something, and he can pass bills, that'll be fine. but damn he bores me.

The man is good looking, he has charisma, the speech was good, he's my second choice, I like him very much, but other than the crowd being incredibly fired up, I just didn't feel much excitement listening to his speech.

I'm not encouraged by Madeleine Albright in the picture.

current person who is in her position today. She may not have been perfect but.....geeze we are screwn now...

after the current asshole.

She was standing right behind Hillary tonight when she gave her speech.

Just so you don't get freaked out for no reason.

Hillary's not my first choice, either.

I just don't get it. A person would have to be so hardened not to be moved by that speech.

just doesn't do it for me.

And Obama has failed to give very many specifics so far.

Perhaps he will in the future.

As a trangsgendered person, I am not thrilled with him for my own reasons.

But Huckabee is the real threat. He should scare the Hell out of EVERYONE.

...you can count on it.

Big eye roller speech to me.

And thought there just wasn't any there there.

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and I am not yet 30. Passionate speech, yes. He sounds like a preacher though. Turns me off.

I haven't heard one with that rhythm. I don't know where he gets his inspiration.

Amazing!

I love how he keeps reminding everyone that the people did this.

Shit...I'm crying again! :) :cry:

Beats the Huck speech by a whole lot. He's sealing the deal now imo- he said it starts here and I agree. Hillary's speech did not measure up to this. We are witnessing something historic I think here.

Obama is NOT saying anything that Edwards has not already said, and in some cases, a lot better. All I need to hear is the reference to Ronnie Raygun's bridge.....

I am sorry - Obama has made a lot better speeches and he is smart enough to take his own ideas and come up with his own slogans....I still carry his speech at the convention in my daytimer so I know he is capable of much better. Hope he says? Edwards was saying that 4 years ago....find something new Obama. You got my vote if Edwards leaves the race, but you need a new speech writer.

I guess I am in the minority tonight, but his speech is not orignal by far. I'ver heard it all before said by someone else.

Oh man, this is hard hard to say, but I am totally not buying Obama. i am so happy to hear i'm not the only one. he seems so phoney to me and his supporters so self-righteous in their pride at having supported someone who isn't white. i am starting to feel similar vibes when watching Obama speak as I feel when I watch BUSH speak - that same "this guy isn't speaking so much as emanating canned talking points".

i am definitely happy to see tons of new young people getting involved with the Democrats. that is cool. i want to see that middle class tax cut he speaks about - first i heard of it - and i am glad he said he was going to cut the troops out of iraq, although he has previously stated he'd be happy to missile Iran and add 100,000 more troops to Iraq. so if he wins, let's hope Obama supporters snap out of their daze and demand from him the changes he promises in this speech.

obama is not my candidate at all. i almost would rather see clinton win - at least i know who she is and where she comes from, but Obama, he might as well be a Karl Rove plant for all I believe him. let's see if he can change my mind and say something original for once rather than channelling some preacher thing which simply does not work with me (i'm a hindu subgenius and preachers in preaching mode make me sort of nauseous).

that might have helped a bit?

good for him...and that crowd is amazing in its diversity, i believe his victory is historic.

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Are big reasons he will win this election. He connects and moves people like No other candidate in this race. I know that pisses some people off.. "you shouldn't elect a candidate because he can give a good speech".. but it's what gets people to vote.

GO OBAMA GO!

I don't think I've ever heard such a well-composed victory speech.

Democrats, America, make this man President.

Terrorism and global warming, genocide and disease. A promise to get the troops home. A promise for tax breaks for working people. A promise to rejoin the family of nations.

Did Edwards or Clinton even mention Iraq?

Oh, promises, promises
This is where those promises, promises end
I don't pretend that what was wrong can be right
Every night I sleep now, no more lies
Things that I promised myself fell apart
But I found my heart

Oh, promises, their kind of promises, can just destroy a life
Oh, promises, those kind of promises, take all the joy from life
Oh, promises, promises, my kind of promises
Can lead to joy and hope and love
Yes, love!!

And, why yes, John Edwards did promise those things ... and, more.

He's the only one to call for:

An immediate large-scale withdrawal from Iraq - complete withdrawal in nine to ten months;
Truly UNIVERSAL Health Care;
Eliminate Poverty in ONE generation;
Americans to be patriotic about something other than war and building a new energy economy based on clean renewable energy and energy efficiency;
making college more affordable through College for Everyone.
reversing unfair trade agreements that make corporations rich while stealing from/oppressing middle class Americans;
No torture - restore America's standing in the world by adhering to our principles (restore Habeas Corpus, no to unwarranted wire-tapping, no to immunity for corporations who violate the law, etc);
any other questions?

the United States of America". "We are one nation, we are one people and our time for change has come".

makes me tear up :(

he talks a good game but backs it up with nothing.

Look at his voting record. Look at his life. He has never done a thing to change anything. He offers a lot of smooth sounding phrases, but I don't see much behind them.

What are the other candidates offering, beside lip service.

Beautiful.

Obama has a beautiful instrument in his voice, and he knows how to use it. Was it a little triangulatory, as much of his rhetoric generally is? Well yes, but true triangulation is hard to do: Obama seems to have the knack of placing himself not just between right and left, but also above the two points on either side.

On to New Hampshire; now the fun part REALLY starts (with Obama as the new "Frontrunner" with all the scrutiny the position entails.) Hillary took a knock tonight, but Barack is not yet Monsieur Inevitable. And if Hillary wins New Hampshire, the "Comeback Girl" will be able to reclaim her cloak of inevitability. But congratulations to Obama, and to his supporters --

If by the end of this primary season (only a month to go really) Obama is our putative nominee, I will be happy to vote for him, and I will trust that he can win. I just wish to GOD that he didn't have such a wacky-ass set of names!

And a great assesment I think. Its going to be an exciting month.

And yes, it will be a great month!

I guess if you fall for soaring rhetoric I can see how it tickles your fancy, but what specifics in his message are remarkably different from the rest of the corporate suits?

i am also astounded at how such a substance-free pep rally could trigger such ooh's and aah's from so many here.

"FIRED UP! CHANGE! HOPE!"

it sounds like a sham to me. oprah as his big endorsement says it all.

He knows how to do that apparently.

What specifically he can really do to help the country?

Well Barack....We're still waiting for those specifics.

There was more substance to Edward's speech. Hillary's just out of touch with reality.

Of the "big three," Edwards is the only one that even suggests changing the power structure. Obama offers doing the same things differently, while Hillary offers more of the same.

cause I couldn't find it. I found a lot of complaints. What where the solutions to the complaints (Iraq not even mentioned) that he proposed? Oh yeah.....We will fix it. That's basically all that he said. If I'm wrong, please find these "specifics" that you refer to located in Edwards' speech.

Also, it seemed that Edwards forgot to thank anyone (like the Unions and those who helped him on the ground) and he also forgot to congratulate anyone other than Obama's mantra for change.

In the end, the two microphones in front of him that he kept on adjusting seemed to be as important as the crowd. Funny how folks can hear things totally different, isn't it. Guess that why I support Obama.

Oh yeah...and folks were clapping and chanting through Obama's speech.....not so much through Edwards. Guess that Edwards stump speech (cause many say that's all it was) was too familiar to them to get very excited.

I wasn't comparing Edwards' speech to Obama's.

First, I gave my assessment of Obama's speech.

Second, I compared the candidacy of the three leading candidates, without reference to any particular speech any of them might have given at any point in time.

Hope that clears things up for you.

I certainly agree with you, that if you are already tuned into a candidate's "message," then you're much more likely to be pleased listening to that candidate's platitudes.

That doesn't excite me anymore.
When he does something of substance, then it will be noteworthy.