Preview of the Speech

I’ve already read the portions of the speech Obama released and it’s what we’ve all heard before. It can’t possibly be the speech he’s going to give tonight.
He assured us it would be a workmanlike speech with specifics. So what happened?

So, is this going to be one of the times Michelle Obama is proud of America?

“The Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act (BAPCPA) of 2005″
I can’t believe Republicans can mention this bill while crying crocodile tears for poor creditors with a straight face when McCain voted for it as well.
The Democratic candidate for President voted against it.
The Republican candidate for President voted for it.

Be sure to tune in to the speech of Susan Eisenhower, granddaughter of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Just after the 7 p.m. hour.
Hopefully the talking heads won’t talk over her!
I cannot wait to see how lame the Republican convention will be next week!

Now Obama is whining that it’s political malpractice to leak the name of McCain’s VP tonight.
Well, who will leak? It will be the media doing what they did with Obama’s choices — camping outside their houses to see if the Secret Service show up.
Obama is acting like a Princess and this is his coronation.

“Obama is acting like a Princess and this is his coronation.”
Spot on.

A challenge for Obama?
To figure out he’s not a Princess and this isn’t a coronation.
Now he’s whining that McCain is committing “political malpractice” because he plans to announce his VP pick so soon after the convention.

Obama talks about the economy as though we’re in a recession, which we’re not.
I can’t remember the last time a presidential candidate hoped for a bad economy for political gain, but I’m not surprised that’s the game Princess is playing.

“I can’t remember the last time a presidential candidate hoped for a bad economy for political gain”
Cheney in 2000 “we may be on the edge or a recession”
Political amnesia is a necessary attribute to be a right winger

Belle Star – the political malpractice comment is not in his speech. It’s a statement released this evening.

What a strategy! To garner support for the disaffected of the party just ridicule them as petty and puerile instead of addressing their concerns. And how are those concerns addressed? “Well anybody would be better than McCain, and especially Obama. That is a pathetic anemic argument. Linking McCain to Bush ignores McCain’s record en toto, i.e. a mistake.
Further, much of Obama’s approach is in fact more akin to Bush’s given that he is touting a new transcendent politics that eschews partisanship, i.e. “compassionate conservatism”. Running as an outsider when one chooses Biden of all people and holds a convention that is awash with lobbiests, is as mendacious as Bush running as an outsider. Then tack on the fact that Obama touts that he is one of “us” when he owns a million dollar house, and is a product of the Ivy league. The narrative of rising from humble roots to a position of prosperity is a trite story that anyone from BOTH parties can provide.
All of this would be besides the point if one could actually provide substantive explanations on how HE is going to DELIVER the goods.
My party is drunk with idealism at the expense of pragmatism.
We might factor in as any person in law could note that Obama, for his much touted intellect failed to publish when honored with a position where one is expected to do so, seems was never offered a clerkship (you can claim racism, but it is a pathetic rejoinder), and of all his time at the University of Chicago produced nothing of which to speak. Then factor in his twenty years of attendance in a church preaching an intellectually bankrupt “theology”, and there is good reason to suggest that my party has either been co-opted by a cabal of ideological “leftovers, or is insane.
We need change, but given the powers invested in executive branch, it is dubious at best that Obama can deliver. We can believe in change, but half of this country does NOT believe for one. Good luck!