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Why Obamas Speech Had A Somber Tone
Time via Yahoo ^ | 01/20/09 | jdsteel

Posted on 01/20/2009 12:57:51 PM PST by jdsteel

Humility, gratitude and sacrifice. From his first words, Barack Obama let us know that even on a day so bright he was not blinded. Not by the cloud of witnesses in front of him. Not by the lights of cameras sending his words across the planet. That he was willing to sound so somber on his day of celebration tells us many things at once. At a time of scarcity, do not waste opportunities. When the world is watching and willing to follow, tell them where you want to take them. And above all tell the truth. (Read Obama's Inaugural Address.)

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TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abovemypaygrade; americanidol; bhoinauguration; bhospeech; boycotttimewarner; celebrity; msm; obama; obamainauguration; obamedia; pravdamedia; somber; thisisyourgod; timelieswarnerturner
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The brainwashing starts. This article is poorly written, it's on about a 5th grade level and has more 0 worship than I've seen yet. Man, are we in for a long 4 or 8 years.
1 posted on 01/20/2009 12:57:52 PM PST by jdsteel
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Why?? It’s the first real job the bastard has ever had and he is scared sh-tless that Soros Schwartz) will find out!


2 posted on 01/20/2009 1:01:35 PM PST by WellyP
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To: jdsteel

The teleprompter was broken?


3 posted on 01/20/2009 1:02:08 PM PST by LottieDah (If only those who speak so eloquently on the rights of animals would do so on behalf of the unborn.e)
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To: jdsteel

Who wrote this? Sasha Obama?

Unbelievable.


4 posted on 01/20/2009 1:02:42 PM PST by rightinthemiddle (Without the Mainstream Media, the Left is Nothing.)
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To: jdsteel

Excuses as usual.


5 posted on 01/20/2009 1:02:52 PM PST by Carley (Remember when we had a real President)
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To: jdsteel; DoughtyOne

“Humility, gratitude and sacrifice”

I usually think of him as,

Arrogance, abandonment and stealing credit away from others.

His white liberal believers think he is the “community organizer” early in his book, but overlook how he admittedly transcended that, to the height of heights, a Chicago crook manipulating resentment and white liberal self-admiration.


6 posted on 01/20/2009 1:03:22 PM PST by Shermy ("The whole world has financed the United States, ...they have a reciprocal debt with the planet.")
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To: jdsteel

Please give us the (Mega Barf alert)


7 posted on 01/20/2009 1:03:33 PM PST by calico_thompson
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To: jdsteel

The MSM is going into crisis mode trying to convince everyone who watched this speech that it wasn’t REALLY a brief, lackluster, completely forgettable address.

Good luck with that.


8 posted on 01/20/2009 1:04:14 PM PST by JennysCool (Internet Powerhouse)
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To: jdsteel

I do not want to click on the link and give Time a viewing hit. Who is the writer of this incredibly stupid article?


9 posted on 01/20/2009 1:05:38 PM PST by jveritas (God Bless our brave troops)
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0bama, being a liberal, has no intention of telling people the truth.

If any of them did that, they wouldn’t see the insides of any halls of power, ever, because their goals are not acceptable to over 60% of the population.

Though, with this election, we saw some “slipping of the veil”, but most of his sycophants, when asked, didn’t see it, or deny it happened.

And I quote: “I wonder what he meant when he said 57 states.”


10 posted on 01/20/2009 1:05:38 PM PST by MrB (The 0bamanation: Marxism, Infanticide, Appeasement, Depression, Thuggery, and Censorship)
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Wow, what’s the over/under on media knee pads for the next four years?


11 posted on 01/20/2009 1:06:04 PM PST by hometoroost (Put not your trust in princes...in whom there is no help...happy is he whose hope is in the Lord.)
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To: LottieDah

Obama’s speech was mostly generic junk that could have been given by any politician, Left or Right. Except:

His reference to maintaining America’s greatness when everybody knows that liberals think America needs to be diminished.

Keeping the government programs that work and ditching the ones that don’t. L-O-L I’d love to hear his definition of what works.


12 posted on 01/20/2009 1:06:25 PM PST by Callahan
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To: Shermy

Ouch. He admits that?


13 posted on 01/20/2009 1:07:03 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I see that Kenya's favorite son has a new weekly Saturday morning radio show.)
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To: jveritas

I don’t know, but I really hate it when folks in the MSM use biblical references, without even knowing where they come from.


14 posted on 01/20/2009 1:07:42 PM PST by anniegetyourgun
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Wow, what’s the over/under on media knee pads for the next four years?

All the Wall Street financial companies rate kneepads as a "buy".

15 posted on 01/20/2009 1:11:17 PM PST by Just another Joe (Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
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Passive Sentences: 11%

Flesch Reading Ease: 76.5

Flesch-Kincade Grade Level: 5.3

16 posted on 01/20/2009 1:12:42 PM PST by SkyDancer ("Talent Without Ambition Is Sad, Ambition Without Talent Is Worse")
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“Here comes the spin again
Falling on my head like a memory
Falling on my head like a new emotion”
Time magazine/Eurythmics


17 posted on 01/20/2009 1:12:48 PM PST by tumblindice (FeaR of Free Republic: `No one gets out alive')
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To: DoughtyOne

“Ouch. He admits that?”

Implicitly. He writes about his powers to convince, and how he can use “hope” and “change” to get people to follow him, and how he senses people project their emotional needs on him.

Openly, he did that. Actually, he was very perceptive and correct.

Should he have admitted that? We’ll see.


18 posted on 01/20/2009 1:13:29 PM PST by Shermy ("The whole world has financed the United States, ...they have a reciprocal debt with the planet.")
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Hussein failed.....his oath...his speech.
19 posted on 01/20/2009 1:15:03 PM PST by roses of sharon (Pray Hussein fails!)
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To: Shermy

You know, Conservative’s first intuition is to take a pass on books written by the left. IMO< that is a big mistake. This is a very revealing comment.

You also mentioned him rising to something like a crime figure in his own words. Was that part in there too?


20 posted on 01/20/2009 1:16:14 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I see that Kenya's favorite son has a new weekly Saturday morning radio show.)
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