Posted on 04/17/2007 9:54:36 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A reader (who found my take on Obama's Milwaukee talk cynical) points me to the audio of his remarks last night, a 23-minute .mp3 file you can listen to here.
It's worth a listen, and it captures what moves a lot of people about Obama, and bothers others: His instinct for abstraction and large themes, and his sense that America's problems have at their root solutions that have as much to do with hope and process as with any specific course of action.
Other politicians would -- and will -- stay with the concrete. They'll talk about this tragedy, and, soon, gun control.
But while Obama mourns the slain students, he takes the massacre more as a theme than as a point of discussion.
"Maybe nothing could have been done to prevent it," he says toward the end.
So he moves quickly to the abstract: Violence, and the general place of violence in American life.
"There's also another kind of violence that we're going to have to think about. It's not necessarily the physical violence, but the violence that we perpetrate on each other in other ways," he said, and goes on to catalogue other forms of "violence."
There's the "verbal violence" of Imus.
There's "the violence of men and women who have worked all their lives and suddenly have the rug pulled out from under them because their job is moved to another country."
There's "the violence of children whose voices are not heard in communities that are ignored,"
And so, Obama says, "there's a lot of different forms of violence in our society, and so much of it is rooted in our incapacity to recognize ourselves in each other."
Many politicians would avoid, I think, suggesting that outsourcing and mass-murder belong in the same category.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
What an idiot.
Damn! I thought he’d give Hillary! a run for her money. This is just plain stupid.
Sounds a lot like Bubba spewing his nonsense for 8 years.
Not surprising. Liberals habitually point the finger in every direction except where it should be pointed.
He’s a lot of talk .. but that’s it
And he is no Bobby Kennedy
He’s a cross between Bubba and Jesse
From his quotes in the excerpt above, it appears that he would make our nation snore, while his harpy handlers run (or further ruin) it.
LOL -— he worse than en empty suit. He’s clueless.
This latest horse sh** from Obamadamadingdong proves it.
“Verbal violence”. Yeah, that’s the ticket.
There's also "the violence of children whose voices are extenguished by abortions"
He’s proven that he is ‘Dumbo” even without the huge ears..
Support for Osama is a mile wide and an inch deep.
One awkward slip and he’s a never-was.
This stupid comment could really cost him in the race.
I’m quite surprised. I was expecting Hillary Hamrod to do a number on him, but he appears to have done it himself.
And the violence of having to listen to ignorant politians.
He just gave Hillary the opening to bury him.
Obama just hit the tumbleweed ceiling. :-)
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