Hussein's Speech

The Virginian ^ | 8/29/2008 | Moneyrunner

[moneyrunner]

I defer to Glenn Reynolds for the roundup.

Ann Althouse live blogged the speech:

The best speech of the convention -- it's no contest -- was given by Bill Clinton. No one else came close for me. Second best: Joe Biden. At the next level, I would put Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama, and Barack Obama.

Stephen Green: Drunkblogging Obama’s Historic Speech

8:58PM I’m sorry I didn’t practice my George Costanza, because this was the speech about nothing.

8:59PM I stand corrected: It was the speech about Bush McCain. But where was Barack Obama? I don’t know. The suit was empty.

On the other hand, the folks at The Corner seen to think it was a good, even great, speech.

Jonah Goldberg:

But, I think he'll get his bump. He's a compelling personality. He's telling a lot of Americans, particularly a lot of Democrats, what they want to hear. He's making himself into a conventional Democrat when a conventional Democrat should be running away with things. He'll get his bump.

[moneyrunner]

At this point I think back to a very wise and insightful point that Rush Limbaugh made a few days ago: we are swimming around in a “theme soup” (my words) that is being cooked by the ideas of those around us, by our culture and – still to a large extent – by the drive-by-media. And those themes are that this is the Democrats’ year and that Hussein is the greatest orator of our time. So we are set-up to hear what we expect to hear when we listen to him speak.

Having these thoughts firmly planted in our heads, we believe that the Right is facing an electoral tsunami and that when Hussein gives a speech it can only be described in superlatives. As Rush said, this attitude infects everybody, even people who believe themselves to be cynical or on the Right.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Today's news media seems to think they are writing the history. The truth about Obama will not be written for decades and in that writing will be how a lapdog media abandoned all pretense of neutrality propped up (and maybe helped get elected) an individual incredibly unqualified to be President of the United States.

[Kirkwood]

Who is this guy named Who-sein? He reminds me of a unipolar magnet. No positive side — just one big negative. You’ve heard of freaks of nature? Well, Who-sein is a freak of politics.