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It's over. Obama is the nominee.
The San Diego Union-Tribune ^ | March 18, 2008 | Chris Reed

Posted on 03/18/2008 11:48:45 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

It was extremely unlikely that Hillary Clinton was going to overcome Barack Obama's lead in delegates, states and total votes and take the Democratic nomination, but Obama's speech this morning -- graceful, thoughtful, nuanced, sweeping, challenging, unprecedented -- pretty much wiped out any chance at all. It was a speech Hillary could never have given -- really, few U.S. politicians ever could have given.

I write this not just because I think this will dampen the Rev. Wright controversy. I write this because Obama did an extraordinary job of presenting himself as the candidate of "the better angels of our nature," to use the phrase from Abraham Lincoln's first inaugural address. His speech isn't just inspirational to millions of voters who are tired of cynicism and division. I think many in the political media will see it as redemptive on personal grounds. Maybe they really aren't spending their careers in swampland.

Which not-so-coincidentally is the name of Time magazine's fine national politics blog.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois; US: Pennsylvania
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Obama’s speech today only served to prove beyond any shadow of a doubt his racially motivated hatred of “the evil white man”.

Basically, he has only shown us what we already suspected, that he’s a shallow, unskilled racist politician who hangs out with other racists and bigots.

In the end, the media will ravage him for his bigotry. This speech will serve as the launching pad for the undoing of his messianic rise.


41 posted on 03/18/2008 12:02:30 PM PDT by retr0 (He who argues with a fool is an even greater fool.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
It's beyond me how a guy who refuses to disassociate himself from a bigoted racebaiter can present himself as a "uniter." It has an Orwellian feel to it.

But it was a deftly presented speech that will make people feel good about Obama, and since the Dim party is all about feelings, the article is probably right.

42 posted on 03/18/2008 12:02:40 PM PDT by colorado tanker (Number nine, number nine, number nine . . .)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
LOL, the MSM trying to tell us “Obama sure is good at lying”, just like in the Clinton years!
43 posted on 03/18/2008 12:02:55 PM PDT by roses of sharon (Who will be McCain's maverick?)
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To: dinoparty
"We cannot let these idiots tell us that questions about Wright in the general election are off-limits, which you know they will try. There should be ad after ad on the topic. If McCain won?t do it, then others should independently."

McCain won't do it and will denounce those who try to. McCain's election will have to be accomplished over his own rhetorical dead body IMO.

44 posted on 03/18/2008 12:02:56 PM PDT by Truth29
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I think many in the political media will see it as redemptive on personal grounds.

Oh, I'm sure the liberal media will swoon over their 'savior'. But it doesn't change a thing for me. Obamie is still the devil.

45 posted on 03/18/2008 12:03:02 PM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: Disturbin
Nora O Donnel is having multiple Obamagasms on MSNBC, she may go into labor.
46 posted on 03/18/2008 12:03:19 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 (Everytime McCain reaches out to conservatives, conservatives get poked in the eye.)
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To: F15Eagle

BTTT


47 posted on 03/18/2008 12:03:47 PM PDT by landerwy (Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness!)
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To: cartoonistx

Blood should be running down that stem.


48 posted on 03/18/2008 12:04:06 PM PDT by 70times7 (Serving Free Republic's warped and obscure humor needs since 1999)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

My Gosh....why dont this guy just give him a wet, sloppy.......uh....kiss


49 posted on 03/18/2008 12:04:12 PM PDT by mpackard (Proud mama of a Sailor.)
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To: FunkyZero

Obama has been able to duck press conferences.
The MSM must believe he is vulnerable but he can’t
hide any longer


50 posted on 03/18/2008 12:04:23 PM PDT by ChiMark
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To: F15Eagle

Better download those quickly for archiving ... the tube is about to censor those inflammatory sermons ‘in the interest of promoting peace’.


51 posted on 03/18/2008 12:04:26 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: ErieGeno

Ohhhh... now that’s very clever!

I do not believe for a minute that it’s over. There is still time for the Clinton’s to put out the hit.

**Note** the views, speculation and innuendo regarding the Clintons putting the ‘hit’ on political rivals or those that know too much are not necessarily shared by me. I do however repeat gossip. :snicker:


52 posted on 03/18/2008 12:04:42 PM PDT by InsensitiveConservative
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To: pissant; AuntB; cripplecreek; upsdriver

LOL Chris Reed.

To old Hunter supporters; that name ring any bells? ;D


53 posted on 03/18/2008 12:05:15 PM PDT by Ultra Sonic 007 (Look at all the candidates. Choose who you think is best. Choose wisely in 2008.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Jeremiah Wright: The Greatest Hits Collection Vol. 1

SIDE ONE:

- God D**n America
- Hillary Ain't Never Been No N****r
- Bill Treated Me Like Monica
- God D**n White Americans (Remix)

SIDE TWO:

- Racism is How this Country was Founded
- Chickens Come Home to Roost
- We're the Same as Al-Qaeda
- We bombed Nagasaki & Didn't bat an eye
- Barack's Nodding His Head Yes! Yes! Yes!
- God's Sick of this Sh*t and So Am I!


54 posted on 03/18/2008 12:05:30 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Anytime someone is described as “nuanced”, I say, “GET THE HOOK!”


55 posted on 03/18/2008 12:05:34 PM PDT by Redleg Duke ("All gave some, and some gave all!")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

*yawn* Yup, such an awesome speech... Umm, ‘cept didn’t watch it, but I’m sure that it’ll be repeated over and over again how great a speech it was. Meanwhile, most of the electorate couldn’t give a rat’s behind about such things. The general public has looked at Obama, and passed. So please, please, continue the lauding of how wonderful it was, morons, while the emails about Obama’s church continue to spread...


56 posted on 03/18/2008 12:05:41 PM PDT by kingu (Party for rent - conservative opinions not required.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Ridiculous - Obama attends a black-power church (with an over-the-top black-power minister) to find himself as a black/African-American man, but the rest of us have to “overcome the politics of racial divide.” What a hyprocrite.


57 posted on 03/18/2008 12:06:09 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: TornadoAlley3
Now Nora says it is no different than people who have gays in their family and can't just disown them.
58 posted on 03/18/2008 12:06:32 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 (Everytime McCain reaches out to conservatives, conservatives get poked in the eye.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

59 posted on 03/18/2008 12:07:08 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Benedict Arnold was against the Terrorist Surveillance Program)
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To: padre35

I read the speech. It seemed pretty pedestrian to me, with a lot of feel good rhetoric, but no actual substance. In other words, it hardly differed from his standard fare.

But, hey, I don’t care if Obama is the nominee. He is now easier to beat than Hillary.


60 posted on 03/18/2008 12:07:09 PM PDT by chesley (Where's the omelet? -- Orwell)
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