[kenavi]

This was the key part of the speech, the only part that promised substance about Obama's life, "Where is the beef?", but copped out. Mrs. Obama's version of the neighborhood pep talk was a variation of RFK's "...but I see the world as it should be, and ask, why not?" (which RFK plagiarized, appropriately enough).

I suspect that BHO's pitch to that hard-pressed crowd was straight from the Alinsky hand-book: "We're going to hit them and hit them hard."

Someone should interview some of the neighborhood people present at that and other meetings, and what actions they took and what results they got.

[Louis Foxwell]

The speech was about nothing. Platitudes and pablum family sentiments made it clear that O should stay in his pay grade and run for PTA president, a job for whidch he barely qualifies.