Barack Obama's Speech

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2004-07-27 10:05pm

Anyone see it? What'd everyone think? I think he was obviously the best speaker at the convention.

18-Till-I-Die · Post by **18-Till-I-Die** » 2004-07-27 10:07pm

Brilliant. Just brilliant. The best speaker so far, hands down. I think Chris Mathews said something like 'A star is born' in reference to his speach and i agree.

Natorgator · Post by **Natorgator** » 2004-07-27 10:08pm

It was excellent. Fox News had nothing to say about it.

Stravo · Post by **Stravo** » 2004-07-27 10:11pm

FANTASTIC. Very moving and the best part is that he used language of the conservatives to forward Democratic ideals. Bob Dole gave the speech an A+. I unfortunately (or fortunately) did not get to see Fox's coverage.

Ron Regan Jr's speech is eloquent and explains the complexity of Stem cell research.

Gil Hamilton · Post by **Gil Hamilton** » 2004-07-27 10:16pm

I really liked Barack Obama's speech. He's an excellent orator.

Ron Reagan's speech was a well written speech and spelled out stem cell research very well. My only problem with his speech is his cadance, but that isn't really a problem..

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2004-07-27 10:50pm

Watch this guy. Especially if Kerry loses. Hell, I'm ready to vote for the guy right now.

Iceberg · Post by **Iceberg** » 2004-07-28 01:13am

Stravo wrote:I unfortunately (or fortunately) did not get to see Fox's coverage.

The part I saw, Faux News was stunned into absolute silence. It was the most gratifying thing I've ever seen.

Post by **The Wookiee** » 2004-07-28 01:36am

Obama was excellent. Everyone here was impressed.

Robert Treder · Post by **Robert Treder** » 2004-07-28 04:11am

If anybody knows where I can find the text of the speech online, help me out. I'm still looking, but so far, the Google, it does nahszing!

Robert Treder · Post by **Robert Treder** » 2004-07-28 04:39am

All right, I Googled it. It's here if anybody's interested. You'll have to do a free registration at the Atlanta Journal Constitution to see it.

Marksist · Post by **Marksist** » 2004-07-28 05:50am

Yes, very great guy, and I can believe all the hype around him as being the "rising star" in the Democratic Party.

My favorite line of his was something like: "People need to turn off the TV... and when a black child is reading a book, others need to stop calling him white."

Robert Treder · Post by **Robert Treder** » 2004-07-28 06:09am

The exact line is:

Obama wrote:Go into any inner city neighborhood, and folks will tell you that government alone can't teach kids to learn. They know that parents have to parent, that children can't achieve unless we raise their expectations and turn off the television sets and eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white.

Which is a kickass line.

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2004-07-28 06:51am

Just reading the line doesn't do it justice. Obama has a hell of a delivery and he had the Fleet Center on its feet with that one.

18-Till-I-Die · Post by **18-Till-I-Die** » 2004-07-28 07:31am

Damn straight he had a hell of a delivery, very few politicians actually sound like they mean what they're saying but he did. How come i never heard of him till yesterday?

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2004-07-28 09:28am

18-Till-I-Die wrote:Damn straight he had a hell of a delivery, very few politicians actually sound like they mean what they're saying but he did. How come i never heard of him till yesterday?

He's up and coming now because he's basically guaranteed a seat in the US Senate, now that his opponent, Jack Ryan, withdrew because of the messy divorce with Jeri Ryan.

EDIT: By the way, Obama's speech is [url=rtsp://cspanrm.fplive.net/cspan/project/c04/c04_dnc072704_obama.rm]here[/url] as a Real Player stream, in case you missed it.

Post by **Vympel** » 2004-07-28 11:01am

That stream quality is appalling. Good speech though.

McC · Post by **McC** » 2004-07-28 11:14am

The stream seems to be down. Any chance anyone else could post something similar? I'd surely like to hear what everyone's raving about.

Iceberg · Post by **Iceberg** » 2004-07-28 11:18am

I am now convinced completely that the SB.com NSF board exists in a space far outside of objective reality.

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2004-07-28 11:22am

It was excellent. Fox News had nothing to say about it.

They did have something to say about it... well not realy they mentioned something about Obama's excellent charater and then replayed the speech in its entirity twice more within the next few hours

Stunned silent is an excellent description

Post by **Vympel** » 2004-07-28 11:22am

McC wrote:The stream seems to be down. Any chance anyone else could post something similar? I'd surely like to hear what everyone's raving about.

It only worked for me if I used IE.

McC · Post by **McC** » 2004-07-28 11:43am

Vympel wrote:It only worked for me if I used IE.

I plugged the URL directly into RealPlayer and it worked.

Weird

Anyway...watching now.

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2004-07-28 12:37pm

Iceberg wrote:I am now convinced completely that the SB.com NSF board exists in a space far outside of objective reality.

NSF? And why should that surprise you so?

Dark Hellion · Post by **Dark Hellion** » 2004-07-28 12:38pm

I only caught a glimpse of it. Was the word Nega-Bad really used. I swear i heard it. If it was, that is the best made up word evar!

SirNitram · Post by **SirNitram** » 2004-07-28 12:43pm

MKSheppard wrote:
Iceberg wrote:I am now convinced completely that the SB.com NSF board exists in a space far outside of objective reality.
NSF? And why should that surprise you so?

Non-Sci-Fi. It's their steaming pile of terror where Creationists have been known to run free and unmasturbated at times.

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2004-07-28 02:51pm

I watched the speech a little while ago. The guy is very articulate and passionate. Whoever writes his stuff is excellent. Though I have to confess, after hearing him talk a little bit about his history and the immediately start saying, "This year, the Democrats have nominated a man who embodies all of these ideals," I thought, "What, they nominated you?"