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Logan Murphy on Friday, January 4th, 2008 at 6:38 AM - PST
During his speech following his victory in Thursday’s Iowa caucus, Senator Barack Obama sounded confident, inspired and ready to take the momentum into New Hampshire. It was most refreshing to see a strong turn out from younger people in Iowa and a general enthusiasm for and from Democrats. After all we’ve endured during the Bush years, it’s a most welcome sight.
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There is a long way to go in the primary season and so much can happen in a short time — there is plenty of room for upsets and surprises along the way. This was strong showing for Democrats and a good night in Iowa.
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Let the games begin………
I noticed Hawk-a-Bible’s speech mimicked the ‘just a common guy’ and ‘hope for the future’ memes that Obama has been using. I wonder if that was intentional, i.e. targeting his speech to counter his opponent.
I still don’t have a crush on Obama.
Obama girl on the other hand . . .
he will not bring the troops home
he will not work for universal health care
he will not force campaign and election reform
he will continue to be a main player in the military industrial media tainment big pharma heath care complex
he will put corporate greed beofre working class need
he will kill and maim more iraqis
he will support bills that subsidize the big companies that ship our jobs over seas
he will keep us dependant on foreign oil
he will get assassinated (I DO NOT WANT THIS MAN TO DIE!!!!)
I find it interesting that the two candidates who won on both sides were the ones speaking about “hope”. Huckabee may be a religious nutter but his message is one of hope and change, same as Obama.
I didn’t think it was inspiring. What is the attraction of this guy, that he’ll give us “hope”. Bullshit, no politician in the modern era delivered anything but illusion to the sheep (especially Reagan, the traitor). And as desirable as a mixed race president would be, he is too Dem machine politics/corporate orientated to serve us well.
Let’s be grown ups. If you need a politician to give you hope, then keep sucking your thumb. Let’s get over the cult of personality with all these people; individually they are more flawed than you or I. Especially the front runners–the best and most honorable candidates from the Dems were the second tier, Kucinich, Dodd and Richardson. So all the fawning over Obama and Clinton make me sick. Edwards seems more redeemable now.
The Rethugs are a lost cause, even Ron Paul; they should all go join the circus, together.
If Obama would quit the MLK vocal affectation, I wouldn’t think he was such a raging phony.
Agreed that it’s a long road. There’s plenty of time for everyone to screw up. Maybe, hopefully, one day this Iowa and NH farce will become a thing of the past. The thought that it could be “decided” so early on is terrifying and undemocratic.
kudos to Obama for getting the young people out to vote. I’m an Edwards man but credit where credit is due
This emperor has no clothes. Anyone trying this hard to be president should not get the job. I hope he proves me wrong but all I see is another Slick Willie with every utterance spoken with just the right affect. Oh don’t get me wrong, I can do without another bumbler like Shrub, but my BS detector goes off every time I hear Obama speak. We really need a reluctant messiah not a car salesman in the White House.
Thank you so much Logan for posting the speech. That was my first chance to see/hear it. I wondered if it was as good as others have said. It sure was. Thanks again.
Karla @ 7:
I know! I heard the same thing last night and I was thrown off by that.
Talk is cheap. Let’s win the White House and fight for actual change. Compromising with extremism is a lose-lose situation. We should only compromise after we’ve set the terms–progressive terms.
I must admit as a twentysomething Edwards supporter, I’m a bit disappointed that (young) people didn’t look past the empty rhetoric and check out his policy, corporate ties, voting record, etc. Yes, I’ll vote for this man, but he’s a moderate, not a liberal fighter. And I must admit I hate how he trivialized our fight against the radical right as a petty “food fight.”
Oh, and I did like the speech; I just want him to use that amazing gift of his to inspire a liberal movement against the extremism of the right to restore America.
obama/sharpton 08′!!!! lol….
Nathan @ 12:
Right on man….
My candidate has dropped out. My grandson’s candidate won in Iowa. Obama got our youth involved in politics which is a good thing for our country. My generation is the past, my grandson’s generation is the future. Therefore, I’ll throw my support to Obama who is without a doubt the most charismatic candidate in the race.
as a 30 year old black guy, this is the greatest speech i ever witnessed last night. i’m normally as cynical as anyone else of my generation but when it comes to this, i’m more than biased. it’s rare to find this kind of earnestness in someone who i really want to win. i’ve read all the pros and cons of this guy and for me, his upside far outweighs the negatives. funny thing is the first thing i thought about when i woke up this morning was that i wish my grandmother, who passed a year and a half ago, could have seen this. she was a huge kucinich fan, but i think she would have made an exception for obama.
It’s a shame neither Bush or Chaney are leaving…
below_me @ 13:
and what is that supposed to mean?
it is NUTS that so many of you (NOT all) are still having wet dreams over John Edwards. Get over him - give your support to Obama. It really ticks me off when all of DailyKos is trashing Obama all the time. We’re trying to get a Democrat elected here. Or would you like another 4 years of a Republican in the White House??? Honestly, people….
Edwards is about as phony as Mitt Romney. And about as electable as John Kerry.
Obama’s campaign brings out the difference between the old and the new, the hopeful and the jaded. Perhaps the hopeful “lambs” are stupid, but I want to have hope in the government and the dream of America. He hasn’t done anything to lose me, and the more I see and hear about the guy, the more I like him.
For those of you who are determined to look past your heart and remember all the painful losses and disappointments and bad times, no one can blame you for wanting edwards or hillary. You analyze them, break them down into parts. Edwards can do xyz, and Hillary has these votes and this experience. Obama isn’t about the parts, he’s about the whole. And I think Obama does more than just inspire hope. A whole state of white people voted for him. He’s been around for a long time. I think people have found substance to go along with his nobility and charisma. Obama makes me excited to participate in politics, and he makes me long for the future. If he wins, I feel like I’ll win too. If Hillary or Edwards wins, I’ll feel like the Republicans lost and that something good happened, but I won’t feel like I won.
sam @ 19:
You mean Obama
Blah, blah, blah is not a speech. He didn’t say anything. If the young are excited by this gibberish, America is doomed.
Alter over at Newsweek has basically stitched this thing up for Obama already. According to him Obama would need to make a mistake to lose now….. It’s amazing how the conventional wisdom changes so quickly. Just yesterday they were noting that winning in Iowa is still far from winning the pie. I guess that only holds if the person you don’t like is ahead.
Edwards/Obama 2008
Exactly what has obama done as senator from his state other than run for president? I am a hillary supporter and i am going to try to support the nominee. But it is going to be difficult to support obama. I came around and supported kerry last time after supporting edwards. I don’t necessarily need someone to inspire me but I want a hard worker and competent leader. I just don’t see any there there with obama. The fact that he is a known former cocaine user doesn’t help either. Also, why is it that it is expected that all blacks are suppose to support him. I just don’t get it. As an american of african descent, I want the best possible person as president. From the choices we have, I think hillary is that person.
I left this site a while ago because all the negative comments were killing my happy and hopeful high, due to Obama’s win last night. Now I’ve returned and there are some happy and hopeful other people here. Derrick, I bet your grandmother would have made an exception for Obama and I bet she would have been smiling all the while. Ben, you expressed my feelings for me. Thanks for that :)
It looks like Ron Paul finished with 10% of the vote. Does that mean that he gets to debate on FAUX ?
Question Blog @ 4:
What a bunch of bullshit….What cyrstal ball are you looking in? Do you have facts and links to back up any of this shit? I am not in Obamas camp so don’t come back with that argument.
Iowa voters were described as “kicking the tires and looking under the hood” of a car. If they really looked under the hood they would have seen Senator Obama sitting on the fence with his finger in the wind. Obama just happened to be out of the Kyl Lieberman amendment….he plays it safe all of the time. How can this fence sitting reflect change?
If this is the way Iowa voters look under the hood I will not be buying any cars in Iowa.
Are there any other candidates besides John Edwards not taking Pac monies?
http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2.....-the-walk/
sam @ 19:
Right! Let’s skip the primaries and the entire nominating process so we can go straight to the general election with Obama.
GOBAMA
GOBAMA
GOBAMA
/end snark
Obama needs to remind people we have a long emergency ahead of us. Lot’s of sacrifices and hard work. They all do in fact. But they aren’t.
png @ 22:
Doomed if we, doomed if we dont. Kucinich 08
SusanUnPc at No Quarter USA wrote one of the most articulate and fact based articles on the web about Obama. Check it out
http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2.....-the-walk/
Sad to see so much negative energy still lurks on this site. Can’t people suspend their negativity even for a little while? I for one feel yesterday was a watershed moment for our country and I will savor the moment.
unfrozencaveman @ 34:
Always with the negative waves, Moriarty!
These numbers from my dubious memory, Obama spent 9 million in Iowa, Hillary approx. 7 million, and Edwards only 3 million. Where did Obama come from that the media immediately embraced him and created the Clinton/Obama paradigm. How is it that all this dough gravitated to Barak? And Tweety immediately declared that with Edwards second, the race was now between Obama and Hillary!? Did anyone see Edwards “concession” speech on the tube? It appeared that as he was about to speak, six networks cut to Hillary’s (3rd place) speech. What’s that smell? Methinks the corporate hacks involved with the subjugation of the middle class really do fear Edwards
His nomination would be disastrous for the party on a McGovernesque scale.
Simply disastrous.
Former San Francisco Mayor (and former State Assembly Speaker) Willie Brown was opining that Obama’s next big challenge is South Carolina, and that while Huckabee got a boost from the God Squad, not having the bucks for the long haul are going to nail him.
Before anyone gets excited enough to soil themselves over this, please refer to “I Hate Iowa,” by Conor Clarke published yesterday in the Guardian, and other similar articles that point out that not only is the Iowa caucus not a Democratic vote, it’s not even a firm, final result until June. Wherever you are, someone reading this, be sure to go out and vote for your chosen candidate in YOUR primary, and pay no attention to the media’s magic act in the meantime.
What the greedy bastards of Corporate America fear most is a new President willing to cut them right off at the knees.
pissed off patricia @ 26:
Yay! I respect everyone who argues that he “has no experience.” But I don’t think it matters as much as people think. FDR was governor for 4 years in New York. A lot of it is just people picking whatever the strongest trait of their favorite is, and saying that’s the most important thing. Obama people say Hope/Change, Hillary people say Experience. But of course, it can go either way.
It was a fine speech!
Very inspiring.
This is what this country needs right now. To be inspired by courage and not fear as is the pathetic little fuck-ups specialty in the White House now.
California does not vote until early Feb. I will make up my mind then. I can unequivocally say who I WILL NOT VOTE FOR and that is any Republican out there until this entire crop of conservative degenerates are out of power — starting with numb-nuts and his grease-ball vice president.
This includes Gomer Huckleberry. Fuck him.
Do I sound pissed? Of course I am. The war drags on and our asshole president, by his actions has made it clear he plans on cleaning out the treasury to reward his friends will continue unabated. And why not? The Congress won’t stop him. And his apologists on Fox News and Swastika radio (Rush, Hannity, and the rest) will defend him till the bitter end — probably because they receive their government checks for doing so (Like conservative Armstrong Williams and others).
Derrick @ 18:
It’s a sign of things to come. Oh, the shit Rush and other racists are putting together right now. They’ll be just a hair shy from saying the n-word. But it’ll only backfire on them.
Michael @ 5:
You must be young Mike. That’s called rhetoric. Every politician has campaigned on hope and change, every single election.
Look back at GWB’s campaign speeches and notice how many times he said hope and change.
Inspiring huh?
Alter at Newsweek ‘Who Will Stop Obama’ sounds like Alter’s stuck on the evil bad big black thug man. And now puppies, the country will enter its ‘issues rollercoaster’ at warp speed. Expect a lot more like this.
Johnny2Bad @ 37:
Why because he would bring millions of new young voters into the process? Yes, thats some disaster. Maybe it’s time to ratchet back on the hyperbole a bit.
Necadawg Says @ 32:
Obama seems to be the the Nader factor in this campaign for the young folk. The problem is that Nader actually had a great deal of standing strong on principles under his wings… far more than Obama who sits on the fence with his finger in the wind. Then Oprah and Obama spin his fence sitting as “bold”. Will college students fall for this hogwash? Sure looks like it.
Obama skipped town on the Kyl Lieberman amendment. I could not stand Hillary’s vote for the Kyl Lieberman amendment but at least she took a stand. Obama ran out the back door. I watched Obama during the John Bolton and Condi Rice nomination hearings he played it safe while Biden, Dodd, Kennedy and others asked hard driving questions…Obama played it safe. He keeps saying that he will not do “business as usual” Do not see any evidence of that in Obama’s actions. In fact just the opposite.
Obama and Oprah seem to have the media spin machine on full speed. If this is “bold” we are in deep trouble with Obama.
Is there any other candidate besides Edwards “walking the talk” Edwards is not taking any Pac monies.
Will the voters in New Hampshire really “kick the tires and look under the hood”? I sure hope so.
One of the better articles on the web about Obama’s fence sitting.
http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2.....-the-walk/
I’m taking the standard watch what they do, not what they say approach.