http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2009/01/21/obama_speech_letdown Comments On: On Obama's Speech and Wanting More by Eli Sanders en-us Copyright 2009 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:01 -0800 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:45:00 -0800 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
If you know the history of the speeches that have come before, you'd know that the quotes we often repeat were often overlooked at the time, buried deep in the text.
Posted by copp3rred]]> Wed, 21 Jan 2009 21:37:32 -0800 The Stranger
2.) Eli, you probably would have gotten some great jokes if you had taken the train. Nothing is ever funny on an inter-city bus.
Posted by Catalina Vel-DuRay]]> Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:09:03 -0800 The Stranger
It did have simple words, beautifully strung in a lovely cadence that suggested the pulpit. It was short. Since he made every word tell, with little resort to the usual empty cataloguing of issues, programs or constituents to please subsets of the audience, it seemed even shorter than it was. He connected today's challenges with yesterday's and, in summoning forth "our better history," laid an inspirational basis for his exhortations to sacrifice and hard work. He made use of great speeches of the past, but obliquely instead of through cheap quotation or mimicry. The Speech was a tough rebuke to Bush (and his recent predecessors in some ways, it seems to me) on many fronts, but decorously so, appropriate to the occasion. I have heard the Speech described as "somber," which I think is wrong. Serious, yes, refreshingly so, but also passionate and uplifting.

I watched it again last night, and it wore well. I plan to watch it again soon. It was a great Speech!
Posted by fixo]]> Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:53:00 -0800 The Stranger
This speech is DEEP. That line alone excoriates much of our foreign policy for decades.

My quick favorite line:
"we have tasted the bitter swill of civil war and segregation, and emerged from that dark chapter stronger and more united"

Bitter swill characterizes the last eight years. More to come.
Posted by tunanator]]> Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:50:41 -0800 The Stranger
This speech is DEEP. That line alone excoriates much of our foreign policy for decades.

My quick favorite line:
"we have tasted the bitter swill of civil war and segregation, and emerged from that dark chapter stronger and more united"

Bitter swill characterizes the last eight years. More to come.


Posted by tunanator]]> Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:49:25 -0800 The Stranger
You are a turd.
Posted by itsmarkmitchell]]> Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:48:58 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Gabe Global]]> Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:36:57 -0800 The Stranger
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.…

As usual... he gets it. (Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.)
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