Posted on 07/25/2008 3:38:56 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
As immortalized by C-SPAN, here’s the incident I had in mind yesterday in writing about the Berlin speech. Click the image and scroll down to chapter 17 to watch. In fairness to the left, no one except the most embarrassing, slackjawed Obama disciples went as far as to compare the speech to the Gettysburg Address. And of course it’s not the case that Lincoln’s speech was universally recognized as a masterpiece immediately afterwards. But it’s surely true that Barry O aspires to Lincolnesque heights of oratory, in which case I humbly offer two bits of advice. One: When you’re hunting for a killer line, try to aim higher than something Stuart Smalley might plausibly say to himself while staring into a mirror. And two: Try to avoid sentiments you might be forced to retract six weeks later.
Here is one quote from the speech...”I was in the pews when Pastor Wright made controversial comments”......something he denied a few days earlier. What do I win???
yikes...Hitchens bloated up....
Another rememberable quote went something like this....”I would no longer abandon Pastor Wright than I would my uncle”
LOL! He must be taking oratory lessons from Kerry — well, Kerry beats him still at soporific, but he has the content-free thing down!
“My grandmother is a typical white person.”
He’s a slobbering alky...
The actual quote....”I can no more disown him (Pastor Wright) than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother — a woman who helped raise me”......Pastor Wright was disowned about a week later.
LoL! how about “um... uh..., the notion that uh...um...”
“I’m here because of Ashley.”
Did he say, “This is not the Victory Column that I knew?”
Ref. his racist close friend, mentor, spiritual advisor, and ex-pastor, Rev. Wright,,,,
"I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother..."
Incredibly profound, far-reaching and sincere....lol
Now THAT'S what I call a memorable line!!
Is Obama firing up hash or sinsemilla in his bong before these speeches? He promised the Berliners and the world just about everything except to fly off the stage and over top of the Brandenburg Gate.
Rush Limbaugh:"The one phrase they might remember from his speech is, "This is our moment. This is our time. This is our chance" to do whatever. These words were uttered by the front man for U2, Bono, in the July, 2005 Live 8 concert."
He may be the only presidential candidate in history to impersonate JFK, Reagan, AND Bono in the same speech.
Obamessiah is ‘ein Berliner’, a toejam jelly dough NUT. How many days until we are subjected to another obamanation spittlefest? Where is the empty suit reading a teleprompter next?
Thanks for sharing....
"Who ya gonna call?"
No wait, wrong speech.
Hope. Change. More Hope. Did I mention Hope?
Heheheheheheh
The dope is fo-shizzle./Just Asking - seoul62........
“Ask not what your color can do for you...”
Yes you did, but not enough change - CHANGE! You sir, are no Barack Obama!
You should take that as a compliment...:)
... funny thing, though, is that there's something familiar about that line ...
“Four score, and seven, six, uh, four, uh, um , five...”
Can I quote the line Bono said that Obamba claimed as his own?
Well he did say "This is the moment" 14 times in his speech...
To which the response should be: The moment for what? More liberal cliches?
Yep.
I think that Obama latches on to a nice sounding platitude phrase and sprinkles it throughout his speeches. The Rorschach speech gives people the warm fuzzies and they get mad when we try to find substance elsewhere--like his record, the company he keeps, and his wife. I don't think they like to be reminded that they got excited over nothing.
Or his handlers lift one from Bono at a U2 concert. Maybe he should pick Bono as his VP. Or better yet, let Bono run and have Obama as the VP.
I think large parts of the speach were lifted directly from Denis Leary’s 1993 album “No cure for cancer”
Least ways, that what it seemed like to me.....
You can check the lyrics for yourself.....
Anytime
Obama’s race speech was nothing but hot air, and any center-right person who bought into it should have their heads examined. Obama used a standard debate/speech tactic to make himself sound moderate by saying that he ‘understands’ what others think and feel.
He understands that poor, working, and middle class whites are upset about racial preferences seeing as how they have not been handed the good life to them on a silver platter. He understands why whites would not want their children bused (at the order of some judge)across the county to another school. He understands that some people are uneasy with mass immigration.
The truth, of course, is that while Obama may ‘understand’ these positions, he in no way shape or form holds them himself. He is a champion of racial preferences. He supports forced busing, and he wants even higher levels of immigration.
It’s too bad that neither the GOP or its standard bearer this time around is willing to make an issue of these issues. Instead of fighting the inevitable demagoguery and charges of racism that would follow an attempt to hit Obama on these issues, McCain and the GOP would rather engage in debate where the Dems and the Left set the rules of engagement for how hot-button issues will be discussed.
"I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother..."
That absolutely incredible and unbelievably stupid line was clearly the most memorable for two reasons:
First, it is blatantly bogus (even to a casual observer), and
Second, he did JUST THAT a short time later...lol
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