Posted on 07/28/2004 4:35:54 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
John Kerry should be nervous. He seems more and more like an afterthought at his own convention. Judging by its coverage this morning, instead of the lugubrious Kerry, Today would love to see inaugurated on January 20th Barack Obama, the Democratic candidate for US Senate from Illinois.
Today led with a clip from Obama's keynote address in which he claimed there was "no liberal America, no conservative America, just the United States of America." Today claimed the speech "electrified" the crowd. It was a nice speech and certainly well received. But "electrified"? A bit of positive editorializing by Today.
Tim Russert, in a subsequent interview with Katie, joined in the gushing, speculating that Obama could one day become the first African-American President.
Campbell Brown surprisingly gave away the beans. She mentioned that Obama is a strong supporter of abortion rights and gun control, and is strongly opposed to the Iraq war. In other words, there's a very good reason for Obama to fudge over the differences between liberal America and conservative America - he is a big-time liberal, like every other national Democrat, and he knows that a significant majority of Americans reject liberalism.
Today mentioned this biographical note: Obama is the son of a Kenyan father and a white mother from Kansas. He was raised by his white grandparents.
Those FReepers who watched Teresa's speech last night and/or read the multitudinous comments about it on FR threads know that it was an excruciating embarrassment, with many observers remarking that to all appearances Teresa seemed heavily sedated, speaking in a very slow, depressed monotone.
Katie gingerly asked Russert what he thought of the speech, and specifically of Teresa's comment that she wanted an America in which "opinionated" women (such as herself) would be respected as smart and knowledgeable. Russert said that "this is who she is and they did the best they could with her" [!] Translation: "they know they have a problem on their hands."
Then it was on to Katie's interview with Elizabeth Edwards, who will introduce her husband tonight, and their daughter Cate [sic] who will introduce her mother.
Katie asked about Teresa's "shove it" comment, made to a journalist "from a conservative newspaper." If a Republican wife had told a NY Times reporter to shove it, would Katie have described the Times as a "liberal" newspaper, despite the fact that the Times' own ombudsman admitted last week that it is?
In any case, Elizabeth expressed the pious hope that Teresa's "terrific" speech last night would get as much coverage as the "shove it" comment.
There was some unintentional humor. Cate Edwards, the 22-yr. old daughter who will introduce her mother, unfortunately seems to have inherited more of her mother's looks than her father's. I'm not sure whose brains she inherited, but she seemed like a confused, somewhat clueless young woman.
Couric tossed her a very generic, gentle question about what she has experienced out on the campaign trail. Cate screwed up her face in a befuddled scrunch, looking like a seventh-grader who had been asked to describe Einstein's theory of quantum physics.
That second picture, I can picture her saying "OhmyGod, like totally!"
You could be right. And it is very rare for someone (other than war hero generals like Ike) to be elected President without previously having served in some other elective office.
That headline has a different meaning for me, since my mother taught her daughters to use WOW as a euphemism for a lower part of the female anatomy. LOL!
"...Teresa's comment that she wanted an America in which "opinionated" women (such as herself) would be respected as smart and knowledgeable."
I've know people with mental disorders from incipient dementia to paranoia to borderline personality disorders and schizophrenia who can carry on a conversation that seems lucid at the beginning and then it becomes obvious that there is a real problem as the threads become more and more disjointed and bizarre. Ter-A-za impresses me in that way.
As for Obama, his speech was surreal as he attempts to state the democrats are for unity all the while a torrent of books, media, movies, and statements from the left trashing every conservative, rightwing, President Bush and Administration pollute the political process. The democrat "values" are nothing more than divide, divide, divide and conquer.
Who do they think they are kidding? Not the Independents that's for sure.
No, really. She does. And she knows her football.....
Are we talking about Teresa or FR? ;-)
Teresa, of course!
For insane, see DU!
I always enjoy reading your could-be columns: glgb's "Today Show Take". You write well!
Wait second. Doesn't anyone think it's odd that Democrats and their minions in the media are already talking about presidential canidates for 2008 and that list doesn't include Kerry who could be President (God forbid)? It's like they are already making alternate plans after Kerry loses.
Many thanks for the kind words. If there's someone from a conservative web site out there who would like to pick up my "column," I'd be glad to hear from them.
Arasina, please let me know if you'd like to be added to the Today Show ping list.
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This is the kind of talk you get when white liberals try to throw a little bone to the blacks. Tim Russert knows very well that a person named "Obama" (and a fire-breathing liberal to boot) will never become the President of the United States.
Just ask Hitler McGillicuddy, one-time 1952 Democratic hopeful from Ozone Park whose hope's were dashed in the run-off for 101st Avenue Dog Catcher race.
The increasingly craven David Brooks, pet "conservative" of the NYT, said exactly the same thing last night, that "I like her" and that one must "let Theresa be Thersa."
"People should be able to speak their mind," said Brooks of the "shove it" incident, failing to note that Theresa was flatly lying and that the Tribune reporter was unfailingly polite in his questions.
You are so right obama. There is a HATE BUSH liberal America, a Conservative America. That is why there is no United America. The RAT party is so out of tuoch with the real America. First black president, don't think so. Dr. Condi Rice will beat you to that spot, if she wants it.
"...Teresa seemed heavily sedated, speaking in a very slow, depressed monotone."
I thought the same thing. I only watched for a few moments but noticed that when she blinked her eyes one opened slower that the other. She did this several times.
"And preserve as much of her [Condi's] privacy as possible."
Does she have things in her private life that she wouldn't want revealed?
He sounded like a moderate then, he said what Bill Cosby advocate and talked about one America. I thought I was hearing some of the same things I have echoed here on this forum. He didn't get issue specific though b/c that is where his liberalism will bear his true colors.(pardon the pun)
I caught-between innings of Rangers/Angels- Mark Shields commnets on Next president keynote speeches. MS had a lsit from Kennedy to Luger of 12 or more people in both parties who would be the next president and they did not even make it to the nomination.
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