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OBAMA HAS BOLLOCKS
I was thrilled with Senator Obama's big speech. It showed substance, passion and, as the title says, bollocks aka balls. I've had my doubts as to whether or not Obama was tough enough to face off with the Republicans but today's speech went a long way towards reassuring me that he's not the next Adlai Stevenson or Michael Dukakis. He looked like a fighter to me today and that's what we need against the right wing slime machine; not a gentleman in chief.
I remain dubious about Obama's goo-goo advisers whose answer to all criticism is to say: "That's the old politics. We don't do that. They're bad. They should go into a time-out." But the candidate showed some backbone today and I'm more enthusiastic about the Obama experiment than previously. I'm unsure as to how this will play among the so-called Reagan Democrats but it may have staunched the bleeding from the Rev. Jeremiah (Goddamn America) Wright affair. <fingers crossed>
Hopefully, Obama will be able to resume the offensive against the Republicans' abysmal record on everything that matters. If the campaign is about the *real* issues and not who Tweety would rather have a beer with, the Democrats will win.
Here are some highlights from Obama's speech courtesy of the fine folks at TPM:
my first take was wow someone this high up on the food chain would actually
speak honestly about the race quagmire.
i think rev. wright was actually a good influance in this race.
Racism is alive and well in the world. Obama is very effective here. He
faces it head on. As for his advisors and the old politics, you are right
on. Like that's going to evaporate overnight. They have to wake up and deal
with it now or later, but deal with it they will.
A real dreamweaver. Haven't had one of those in a long time...
Obama was on our side BUT he was a freshman Senator in the then minority
party so there wasn't much he could do.
I havn't seen the speech only read it.
Peter, that's not a reason. If power is required for action, why would I
empower him? He claims constancy, I ask for evidence of his (to me rather
pedestrian) rhetoric. He claims to be race conscious, and our town
experienced the biggest racial crisis in recent history, if you only
followed the news media of that time. Naturally, I couldn't then so I've
had to play catchup for those missing months: hard to engage in
reconstruction without communication access and keep tabs on political
footballing. Nevertheless, it remains a real question because I don't
recall seeing him around town, so I want to know if he did anything.